How do you stop sinning?

[Pitcharan]

Hi everyone,
I was just wondering please can anyone here help me in my relationship with God?. I have backslidden in my faith around a year ago or more and I would like to return to the Church and improve my relationship with God I would like if you could tell me how I can create a new relationship with God and tell me how to love Him again. What advice can you all give me?

Thank you

Hi everyone,
I was just wondering how do you stop sinning? How can you get more willpower to stop sinning? What do you all do to stop yourselves when you feel tempted to sin?

Thank you

You are highly favored already as you are a Catholic. There is NO substitute to the sacramental salvation process instituted by our Lord

 

[Catholic_Knight_1]

The answer is simple, but not easy to do! Grow in virtue by habit, and daily prayer to call on God’s grace. What I have been doing to battle impurity and strengthen my will (which is pretty weak mind you) is go to daily mass in the morning and then go running afterwards. Discipline is needed to strengthen the will. That is why fasting, setting times for prayer, and exercise can help. If you can resist a slice of cake, if you can commit to praying at a certain time during the day even when you don’t feel like it, if you exercise when you feel lazy and tired and do acts of discipline day by day, then you will find yourself with a stronger will to fight temptation. But you do not strengthen the will so you can be independent on God. You strengthen the will to accept more easily and willingly the graces God offers to us to overcome temptation; for you cannot do anything without him! And using your strengthened will and God’s grace, practice the virtues that oppose the 7 deadly sins. For pride, grow in humility. Learn to love the simple things in life, learn to laugh at yourself and don’t fret so much over a humiliating experience. Hope this helps and God Bless!

 

[Pablopedro]

Hi everyone,
I was just wondering how do you stop sinning? How can you get more willpower to stop sinning? What do you all do to stop yourselves when you feel tempted to sin?

Thank you

Something that will also help is having plans in place for what you are going to do when you feel tempted…then stick with them.

For example if you find yourself struggling with impure thoughts or impulses sometimes when watching t.v. then have a plan in place that as soon as you start feeling this way you are going to turn off the t.v., stand up and go for a walk, or do dishes, or just walk outside and say three Hail Marys.

Temptation comes on fast. Having a plan in place ahead of time can really help. Also frequent confession, even if it seems like you are just saying the same thing over and over. Sometimes we just need to stick with it and make small improvements over time.

 

[Joy2day]

The answer is simple, but not easy to do! Grow in virtue by habit, and daily prayer to call on God’s grace. What I have been doing to battle impurity and strengthen my will (which is pretty weak mind you) is go to daily mass in the morning and then go running afterwards. Discipline is needed to strengthen the will. That is why fasting, setting times for prayer, and exercise can help. If you can resist a slice of cake, if you can commit to praying at a certain time during the day even when you don’t feel like it, if you exercise when you feel lazy and tired and do acts of discipline day by day, then you will find yourself with a stronger will to fight temptation. But you do not strengthen the will so you can be independent on God. You strengthen the will to accept more easily and willingly the graces God offers to us to overcome temptation; for you cannot do anything without him! And using your strengthened will and God’s grace, practice the virtues that oppose the 7 deadly sins. For pride, grow in humility. Learn to love the simple things in life, learn to laugh at yourself and don’t fret so much over a humiliating experience. Hope this helps and God Bless!

Excellent post.

 

[Joy2day]

A wise old priest once told me, “until the reason to avoid sin becomes stronger than the desire, you’ll find yourself failing.”

The reason of course is love of God, and our neighbor as Jesus taught us to do.


Jim

very true.