Sin Quotes
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. (Quote by - Joan of Arc)
A great sin is a course of wickedness abridged into one act. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. (Quote by - Hyman Rickover)
And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. (Quote by - Walter Martin)
It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner. (Quote by - Giovanni Guareschi)
Sin is whatever obscures the soul. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. (Quote by - Peter Tosh)
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. (Quote by - John Calvin)
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. (Quote by - Alain Rene Lesage)
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. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ. (Quote by - Donald Cargill)
Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more. (Quote by - Donald Cargill)
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. (Quote by - Maria Monk)
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. (Quote by - ngelina Grimke)
Being seventy is not a sin. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin. (Quote by - Denise McCluggage)
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence. (Quote by - Donald Cargill)
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. (Quote by - Piers Paul Read)
Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality. (Quote by - Reggie White)
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! (Quote by - Billy Sunday)
Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave. (Quote by - Friedrich von Logau)
And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin. (Quote by - Elias Hicks)
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. (Quote by - Malcolm Bradbury)
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name. (Quote by - Orson Pratt)
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. (Quote by - Hyman Rickover)
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. (Quote by - Samuel Hopkins)
He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it (Quote by - French Proverb)
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. (Quote by - Mira Sorvino)
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. (Quote by - William Gurnall)
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. (Quote by - Olive Schreiner)
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations. (Quote by - John Walker Lindh)
But the trail of the serpent is over them all. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations. (Quote by - John Walker Lindh)
In art, the obvious is a sin. (Quote by - Edward Dmytryk)
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. (Quote by - Harriet Ann Jacobs)
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Sin is geographical. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. (Quote by - George Eliot)
It's a sin to have your films not to make money. (Quote by - Ellen Burstyn)
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ. (Quote by - Donald Cargill)
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. (Quote by - William Cowper)
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be! (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. (Quote by - John Milton)
Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
A sin is something which is not necessary. (Quote by - George Gurdjieff)
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? (Quote by - Max Muller)
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. (Quote by - Ovid)
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. (Quote by - Georg Brandes)
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. (Quote by - John Milton)
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. (Quote by - Anne Baxter)
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more. (Quote by - Jock Sturges)
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
The only sins are violations of love. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy. (Quote by - Ovid)
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. (Quote by - Ovid)
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
But, said as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
I look upon pride as a sin. (Quote by - Tommy Lee Jones)
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down. (Quote by - Joseph Smith, Jr.)
Really to sin you have to be serious about it. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. (Quote by - Bible)
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There is no sin except stupidity. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. (Quote by - John Flavel)
You'll never be able to speak against sin if you're entertained by it (Quote by - John Muncee)
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. (Quote by - Willard Van Orman Quine)
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. (Quote by - Bernard de Mandeville)
Competition is a sin. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. (Quote by - John von Neumann)
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. (Quote by - John Acton)
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. (Quote by - Johannes Tauler )
It is a sin to be poor. (Quote by - Charles Fillmore)
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. (Quote by - Willard Van Orman Quine)
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. (Quote by - Charles Williams)
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. (Quote by - William Robertson Smith )
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. (Quote by - Arthur Machen)
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. (Quote by - Francis Schaeffer)
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. (Quote by - Robert Rodriguez)
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. (Quote by - Abraham Joshua Heschel)
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. (Quote by - Iris Dement)
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. (Quote by - Moliere)
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. (Quote by - Ovid)
Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
The sinning is the best part of repentance. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. (Quote by - Pope Paul VI)
Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty. (Quote by - Margaret Smith)
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)
But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time. (Quote by - Elias Hicks)
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. (Quote by - Josiah Stamp)
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. (Quote by - John Webster)
One who is allowed to sin, sins less (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. (Quote by - Susan Sarandon)
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. (Quote by - Charles Edward Merriam)
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)
Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin; We cannot heal the throbbing heart Will we discern the wounds within. (Quote by - George Crabbe)
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure. (Quote by - Gerald Gould)
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black. (Quote by - John Albion Andrew)
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. (Quote by - Charles Hodge)
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
The wages of sin are sables. (Quote by - Anon.)
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Quote by - Robert Browning Hamilton)
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it. (Quote by - Martin Buber)
I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it? (Quote by - Armand Assante)
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. (Quote by - Paddy Ashdown)
I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. (Quote by - Jock Sturges)
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)
In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. (Quote by - Judith Martin)
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit. (Quote by - Marvin Gaye)
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . (Quote by - St. Teresa of Avila)
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. (Quote by - Johann Arndt)
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. (Quote by - Jupiter Hammon)
There are sins of omission as well as those of commission. (Quote by - Dorothee DeLuzy)
For a married woman to flirt is a sin. (Quote by - Anna Held)
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. (Quote by - Vance Havner)
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven. (Quote by - Walter Lang)
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
Remorse is the pain of sin. (Quote by - Theodore Parker )
Every sin brings its punishment with it. (Quote by - Romanian Proverb)
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so. (Quote by - Veronica Franco)
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. (Quote by - David Halberstam)
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
By that sin fell the angels. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
Every sin is the result of a collaboration. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Not failure, but low aim is sin. (Quote by - Benjamin E. Mays)
It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
I always say beauty is only sin deep. (Quote by - H. H. Munro)
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. (Quote by - Anatole France)
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. (Quote by - Benmont Tench)
Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone. (Quote by - Frank Dane)
If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it. (Quote by - Walter Lang)
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. (Quote by - Hungarian Proverb)
So many laws argues so many sins. (Quote by - John Milton)
Humanity is the sin of God. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. (Quote by - Louis Brandeis)
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. (Quote by - E. Stanley Jones)
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation. (Quote by - Reggie White)
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. (Quote by - Dan Savage)
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. (Quote by - George Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Hunter S. Thompson)
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be. (Quote by - William Throsby Bridges)
Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double (Quote by - German Proverb)
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think. (Quote by - Adela Florence Nicolson)
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Quote by - Bible)
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. (Quote by - John Chrysostom)
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. (Quote by - Dewitt Bodeen)
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited. (Quote by - Kazi Shams)
The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. (Quote by - Mary Martha Sherwood)
A sin confessed is half forgiven. (Quote by - French Proverb)
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything. (Quote by - Ernestine L. Rose)
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. (Quote by - John 8:7)
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. (Quote by - J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Repentance is but want of power to sin. (Quote by - John Dryden)
It's a sin to be tired. (Quote by - Kate Moss)
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
We are punished by our sins, not for them. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. (Quote by - William Ames)
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. (Quote by - Michelangelo Antonioni)
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill. (Quote by - William Gurnall)
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. (Quote by - Jose Marti)
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. (Quote by - John Owen)
Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin. (Quote by - John Nelson Darby)
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. (Quote by - Richard Stallman)
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. (Quote by - Frederick Soddy)
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty. (Quote by - Delia Smith)
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. (Quote by - Muriel Spark)
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. (Quote by - Tony Snow)
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. (Quote by - Saint Teresa of Avila)
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. (Quote by - Bible)
Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. (Quote by - Rocco Buttiglione)
