John Henry Newman Quotes

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.