Sin Quotes
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee -
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.
Donald Miller
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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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
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.
Lou Holtz -
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy -
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 -
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters -
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.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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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.
Barbara Tuchman -
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
I. L. Peretz -
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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 -
Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
R. C. Sproul -
Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
Jerry Bridges
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
Walter Scott -
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler -
The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
R. C. Sproul