Do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church. Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent. Pay attention to what the devil did to you. These are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Divine goodness not only does not reject the repentant soul, but always seeks to find even the obstinate.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Stop defiling your flesh with shameful deeds and polluting your soul with wicked thoughts; then the peace of God will descend upon you and bring you love.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
If you are sinful, repent so that you can communicate often. If you are imperfect, go often to Communion that you may amend your faults.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Our Lord is always ready to lift us up again when we fall, and he even finds a way to make our falls beneficial to us if after them we turn back to him with a humble, trusting heart.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
