Quote by Anthony Trollope

“All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that…

— K.W. Jeter

“The world had a pleasant beginning Until Adam spoiled it by sinning; We hope that the story Will end in God's glory, But so…

— Joseph T. Shipley

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that takes more…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“I never expect, until I get to heaven, to be able to cease confessing sin every day and every time I stand before God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“It is interesting to note that after Adam & Eve sinned, they made only loincloths for themselves.1 It seems that they were ashamed only…

— Jim C. Cunningham

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed…

— Anonymous

“An evil deed can be forgiven. While it may not be forgotten, the deed is not the doer, and we must be willing to…

— Roy Huff

“it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.”

— Martin Luther

“Ever since that troublemaker Eve handed that gullible Adam the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they say, human beings…

— Mirabai Starr

The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always…

— Peter Julian Eymard