Sins Quotes

• All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Ambition
  • Sense
  • Inferiority

• Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. We believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Welfare
  • Thief

• I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

  

  Vanity
  • Daily
  • Sins
  • Shortcomings

• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Pornography

• These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Souls
  • Sins
  • Sink

• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Spring
  • Sins
  • Thrushes

• The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

  

  James Cook
  • Sins
  • Repeat
  • Outcome

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Sins

• We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Charity
  • Multitude
  • Robe

• Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Remember
  • Past

• Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Things
  • Rich

• In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Affliction

• Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Stop
  • Eye
  • Bank

• Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Love Is
  • Treasure
  • Sins

• I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

  

  Benjamin Martin
  • Cost
  • Sins
  • Feared

• Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • God
  • Congress
  • Whispering

• There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Horror
  • Madness

• No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Small
  • Grace
  • Greatness

• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fascinating
  • Felicity
  • Flaunt

• If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Salvation
  • Sins
  • I Hate

• Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Christ
  • Reconciled

• Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Salvation
  • Baptism
  • Sacrament

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