Reflection upon past sins is good only so long as it produces revulsion from sin, and like a bow shoots the soul toward God and righteousness.

God is like a mother who forgives the child's sin into everlasting forgetfulness.

Man should be ashamed to remember what God forgets.

"I will cast your sins into the depth of the sea." Someone says: "God receives the soul as the sea the bather, to return it cleansed--itself unsoiled." Gather up, therefore, all thy sins--old wrongs, old hatreds, burning angers, memories of men's treachery; stuff them into a bag and heave them into the gulf of oblivion.

Your life is not in the past, but in the future.