Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

In the spiritual life we can do nothing worthy without repentance, but the Lord has much mercy on us because of our intentions. He who compels himself and holds on to repentance until the end, even if he sins is saved because he compelled himself, for the Lord promised this in the Gospel.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. For we do not know how many hidden evils we have; Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.