Confession, John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Repentance
My children, we cannot comprehend the goodness of God towards us in instituting this great Sacrament of Penance. If we had had a favor to ask of Our Lord, we should never have thought of asking Him that. But He foresaw our frailty and our inconstancy in well-doing, and His love induced Him to do what we should not have dared to ask. If one said to those poor lost souls that have been so long in Hell, “We are going to place a priest at the gate of Hell: all those who wish to confess have only to go out,” do you think, my children, that a single one would remain? The most guilty would not be afraid of telling their sins, nor even of telling them before all the world. Oh, how soon Hell would be a desert, and how Heaven would be peopled! Well, we have the time and the means, which those poor lost souls have not.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
John Chrysostom (347-407), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Repentance
Discouragement does not allow the one who falls to get back up, and laziness throws down the one who is upright. The latter deprives us constantly of the goods that we gain; it does not allow us to escape from the evils that are to come. Laziness throws us down even from heaven, while discouragement hurls us down even to the very abyss of wickedness. Indeed, we can quickly return from there if we do not become discouraged.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Repentance, Struggle (with Sin)
Redemption is a hundred times better than innocence.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Confession, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance
After you have examined your conscience, what should you do? You must weep over your sins like Peter, lay yourself at his feet like Mary Magdalene, resolve to reform with the resolution of Zacchaeus and the zeal of Paul. Only in this way will you advance with hope.
–Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân (1928-2002)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance
Although He is greatly upset by our offenses, God, in His infinite goodness, puts up with us, spreads a veil over our sins, and waits for us to repent.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Repentance
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
