Sin Quotes
No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner.
But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.
Leslie Poles Hartley
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.
Annie Laurie Gaylor
The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
George C. Homans
Vanity: my favorite sin.
Al Pacino
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
Moliere
Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
Joseph Prince
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
John the Apostle
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William Faulkner
Sin is essentially a departure from God.
Martin Luther
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.
Michael Anthony
Van Halen
Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.
Cornelius Plantinga
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
Ethan Bennett Farnum
