C. S. Lewis Sin Quotations

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us...

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.