Sin Quotes
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Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.
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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.
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Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
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It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
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In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
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The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
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But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.
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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.
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When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
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Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.
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Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.
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Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?
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Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.
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It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
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Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.
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We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
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Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
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What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
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A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
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The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.
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What sense do I make of it? People fall back into sin. There are all sorts of reasons why people go back.
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In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
