Sin Quotes
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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
Philip James Bailey
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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
Eugen Sandow
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O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit.... Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy Son Jesus Christ.... Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and hast given me assurance of salvation.
George Washington
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
Marcel Proust
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
Brian Houston
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Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
Heather Locklear
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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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How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.
Brennan Manning
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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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The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.
Eberhard Bethge
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong
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He looked good, like sin in a suit.
Melissa Marr
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Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.
Jerry Bridges
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If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.
Angus Buchan
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We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
Joseph Prince
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?
Eva Figes
