The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Saints need sinners.
The gods behold all righteous actions.