Quotes about sin

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

— W. H. Auden

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

— St. Augustine

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.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Georges Bernanos

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

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

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

— John Bunyan

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

— Eric Butterworth

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

— Albert Camus

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Miguel De Cervantes

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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.

— Cyril Connolly

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

— William Cowper

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

— Frank Dane

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

— John Dryden

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

— Mary Baker Eddy

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Thomas Fuller

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

— Andre Gide

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

— Gerald Gould

A sin is something which is not necessary.

— George Gurdjieff

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Kin Hubbard

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Robert Irvine

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Bill Maher

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.

— Bernard Mandeville

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

— Peter Marshall

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.

— John H. Mccomb

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.

— Phyllis Mcginley

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

— Ogden Nash

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

— Ovid

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Cesare Pavese

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

— Cesare Pavese

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

— Arabian Proverb

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

— French Proverb

All sins cast long shadows.

— Irish Proverb

The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.

— Italian Proverb

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

— Russian Proverb

It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.

— Scottish Proverb

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.

— Piers Paul Read

Sin is geographical.

— Bertrand Russell

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

— Jewish Saying

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

— Seneca

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

— Seneca

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

— William Shakespeare

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

— William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

— William Shakespeare

The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.

— Cecil J. Sharpe

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

— Igor Stravinsky

Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

— The Talmud

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

— Henry David Thoreau

If others have sinned you need not mention it

— Source Unknown

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

— Kara Vichko

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

— Oscar Wilde

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

— Oscar Wilde