Sin Quotes
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.
Olive Schreiner
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam Clarke
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling
If the slavery in which we hold the blacks is wrong, it is a very great and public sin, and, therefore, a sin which God is now testifying against in the calamities he has brought upon us; consequently, must be reformed before we can reasonably expect deliverance, or even sincerely to ask for it.
Samuel Hopkins
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.
Charles Hodge
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius
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.
Barbara G. Walker
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R. C. Sproul
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.
Valerie Plame
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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
Walter Lang
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
Walter Scott
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
Stephen Covey
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
I. L. Peretz
