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

If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

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

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.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.