Sin Quotes
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This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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.
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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
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Can I choose to undergo the greatest suffering rather than commit the least sin?
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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.
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If the disease is sin, the remedy is found at the Cross.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
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No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
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If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
