How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.