Able Quote by Thomas a Kempis

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

— Umar

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's…

— Saint Bernard

Pain is the outcome of sin.

— Gautama Buddha

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

— Oswald Chambers

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

— John Owen

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ,…

— Charles Spurgeon

“that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it “shatters the myth that our own righteousness can…

— Tremper Longman III

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

— T. B. Joshua

Remorse is the pain of sin.

— Theodore Parker

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

— Louis XIV

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones