“Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.”

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so we can see life with a clearer view again.”

“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”

“We do not wash our pits in the pool of sacred tears”

“Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.”

“The heart is not cleansed with ordinary water,, but with tears of shame and repentance,,”