Sin Quotes
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Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.
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Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.
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You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.
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Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
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The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!
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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
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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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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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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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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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Can I choose to undergo the greatest suffering rather than commit the least sin?
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He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
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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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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.
