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.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

There is no sin except stupidity.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn’t feel wrong, I didn’t feel right!

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.