Sin Quotes
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The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Martin Luther -
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. Joshua
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde -
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
Oscar Wilde -
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
Oscar Wilde -
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde -
Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
Oscar Wilde -
I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen
Jay-Z
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Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.
Brigham Young -
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Sin is blatant mutiny against God.
Oswald Chambers -
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
Oswald Chambers -
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar Wilde -
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
Carl Hiaasen -
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
Saint Basil -
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
Wayne Thiebaud -
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde -
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
Stewart O'Nan -
The Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.
Barbara Cameron
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Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."
Neil L. Andersen -
It's a sin to be tired.
Kate Moss -
Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
Tertullian -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden