Sin Quotes

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake...

I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Sty...

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as muc...

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had...

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only...

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no m...

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an und...

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wand...

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things w...

...sin is separation.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibble...

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Unc...

We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst...

God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by care...

Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encount...

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so,' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot ha...

You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. M...

They all have tired mouthsand bright seamless souls.And a longing (as for sin)sometimes haunts their...

Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the bigges...

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to ...

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its ra...

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317...

The sum is this, —As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy graces...

O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neig...

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and eart...

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and ex...

Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagine...

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

The only sin is the sin of being born

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Sp...

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd...

...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated ...

The only crime is pride.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very...

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what c...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure.

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or loc...

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is ...

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wrec...

There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin, for example.""And what...

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Sin is a gravitation.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wron...

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, i...

We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know e...

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires....

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgivenes...

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer...

And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me a...

There are different kinds of fear. One of the most terrible is the sensation that you are likely to ...

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would no...

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin ...

What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of stan...

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us...

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what h...

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. E...

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the s...

Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providin...

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but b...

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. A...

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is resp...

We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupatio...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

The modern skeptical world has been taught for some 200 years a conception of human nature in which ...

Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, ...

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the va...