Sin Quotes
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Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
Esther Smith
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
Elvis Costello
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
Boyd K. Packer
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And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.
Catherine of Genoa
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God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
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America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
Evelyn Anthony
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Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
Nathaniel Culverwell
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I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
Ernestine Rose
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
Ernest Hemingway
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In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
Colin S. Smith
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Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
Miguel de Cervantes
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Walter Hilton
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He looked good, like sin in a suit.
Melissa Marr
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Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
Neil L. Andersen
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Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.
Al Barry
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I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
John Calvin
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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I do sin, but I am not the devil.
Marilyn Monroe
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
Will Durant
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
Marcel Proust
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Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask thy favors ... He who neglects the service of the Blessed Virgin will die in his sins ... He who does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven ... Not only will those from whom Mary turns her countenance not be saved, but there will be no hope of their salvation ... No one can be saved without the protection of Mary.
Bonaventure