Sin Quotes (844 Quotes)

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

All right. You know some bankers who are slick with a slice of secret sin. You've seen some bakers and candlestick makers who are no credit to their profession. Yet you don't damn banking and baking, and candlestick making because of them.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost -- To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

A multi-millionaire's sins may cause one woman to apply for legal redress, but there is absolutely no depth of moral blackness that will deter some other woman from consenting to replace her.

I don't think it bothers the world that we sin, I think it bothers the world that we act like we don't.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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.

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

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.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin, but to be rich And, being rich, my virtue then shall be, To say there is no vice, but beggary.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, and I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist. I'll butt it as long as I've got a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition. (William Ashley

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thingThe Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.

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.

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

Can anyone walk through water without wetting his feet The companions replied, 'No' Muhammad said, 'Such is the condition of those of the world they are not safe from sins.'

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.

For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not for what I would, that do I not but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.

There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the 'intellectual' as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways into the simplicity of faith and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.