Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not fear of what is bad.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and...

Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms...

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always...

God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up to see the grace and mercy of God, and then had directed them...

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the...

To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is only when those acts are complete that the slate can truly...

I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was...

Be it sin or no, I hate the man!

The English judged a person so that they’d be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they’d be justified in welcoming her back. Where I’m from, if someone is accused...

There is often a sin of omission as well as of commission

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right....

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

But we can never change enough to impress God. And here’s the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my...

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I...

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy...

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain” (Ps. 76:10).

You have found love in your heart – and out of small changes come great things.

The whole conception of ‘sin’ is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.

When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet ‘underneath’ thee ‘are everlasting arms’. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ’s great atonement is still under all.

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they’d have...

NO one can say ‘NO’ to sin and ‘Yes’ to rightousness without the help of Holy Spirit.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Telling people they don’t have a sin nature doesn’t promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Satan fell by the force of gravity.

Paul’s antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists—including evil—is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly. We don’t make God. He...

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so...

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow … He began by being the world’s healer. But what broke him...

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.