Sin Quotes
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Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there.
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The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.
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Self – love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self – neglecting.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Cowardice is the greatest sin.
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I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
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I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
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Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
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As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
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Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
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How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
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when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
