Sin Quotes
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always in the state of grace.
And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.
Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?
Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.