Sin Quotes
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.
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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
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He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
