Sin Quotes
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
William E. Gladstone
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
Martin Luther
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Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
Martin Luther
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They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.
Colin Falconer
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Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.
Augusta Jane Evans
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This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
Thomas Aquinas
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Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
Adolf Hitler
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare
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Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
Shelley Morrison
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
Molly Ivins
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
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No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
Isaac Watts
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The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
William Gurnall
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If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
Gail Godwin
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
Martin Luther
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known.
Francis Chan
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So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
Alfred Edersheim
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The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory.
John Calvin
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Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
William Gurnall
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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
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To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.
Carlo Levi