Forgive Sins

Famous quotes containing the words forgive and/or sins:

“The little Strangs say the “good words,” as they call them, before going to bed, aloud and at their father’s knee, or rather in the pit of his stomach. One of them was lately heard to say “Forgive us our christmasses as we forgive them that christmas against us.””
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.”
—André Gide (1869–1951)