Sin Quotations | Page 3

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

He that does not repent, sins again.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

Sin is in, and so we begin...

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe...

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

It is a sin to be poor.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit, and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

There are low views of God's holiness, and a ceasing to condemn sin in the flesh, and a looking from him who humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation.

Envy is a deadly sin!

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. We're both role models who have made different choices. I don't know why we're even talking about it. It's a private matter. It has nothing to do with basketball.

Let them fear death who do not fear sin

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

O Nanak, those who do not walk in the ways of sin, shall be exalted in the world hereafter.

Sin leads to sure and certain downfall and hence we should abstain from sinful deeds.

Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.

Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.