Sin Quotes

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

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.'

You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).

...when we are loving, we can't sin.

...you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

You can't win with sin.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

The sin is in our thoughts.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

As we sin, so do we suffer

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.