Quotes about sin

"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."

Auden, W. H. on sin   

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

Augustine, St. on sin
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"True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin."

Baudelaire, Charles on sin   

"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it."

Bernanos, Georges on sin   

"But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it. [Genesis 4:7]"

Bible on sin   

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people."

Bible on sin   

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. [Romans 3:23]"

Bible on sin   

"He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone."

Bible on sin   

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"But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. [Numbers 32:23]"

Bible on sin   

"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."

Bunyan, John on sin   

"SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense"

Butterworth, Eric on sin
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"If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

Camus, Albert on sin
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"The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit."

Carlyle, Thomas on sin   

"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."

Cervantes, Miguel De on sin   

"Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive."

Colby, Frank Moore on sin   

"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."

Connolly, Cyril on sin   

"No one was ever scolded out of their sins."

Cowper, William on sin   

"Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone."

Dane, Frank on sin   

"She feared no danger, for she knew no sin."

Dryden, John on sin
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"Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin."

Eddy, Mary Baker on sin   

"That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sin   

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"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."

Fuller, Thomas on sin   

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

Gide, Andre on sin   

"For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure..."

Gould, Gerald on sin   

"A sin is something which is not necessary."

Gurdjieff, George on sin   

"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners."

Hoffer, Eric on sin   

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on sin   

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"God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on sin   

"Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them."

Hubbard, Elbert on sin   

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"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Hubbard, Kin on sin
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"Really to sin you have to be serious about it."

Ibsen, Henrik on sin   

"God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve."

Irvine, Robert on sin   

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

Kipling, Rudyard on sin   

"Everything that used to be a sin, is now a disease."

Maher, Bill on sin   

"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."

Mandeville, Bernard on sin   

"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."

Marshall, Peter on sin
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"Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin."

Mccomb, John H. on sin   

"Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick."

Mcginley, Phyllis on sin   

"The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin."

Nash, Ogden on sin
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"Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy."

Ovid on sin