Sin Quotes
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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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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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There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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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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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
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Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
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How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.
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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.
