nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.

What an ingrate I would be to curse the fate that concludes the blessed life I’ve led.

Three things I hate in life: Ria, lies and ungratefulness.

According to Aesthetic Realism, the greatest sin that a person can have is the desire for contempt. Because as soon as you have contempt, as soon as you don't want to see another person as having the fulness that you have, you can rob that person, hurt that person, kill that person.

Ungrateful soul, not to forego its own miserable gratifications, it consented to lose God.

One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.

It is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit