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.

It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don't remember your sins in detail, but manfully endure the suffering that is coming because of them.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

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