Sin Quotes

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

How much is your sin going to cost me?

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Our sins are never too great for God to forgive.

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

The only sins are violations of Love.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Satan was the originator of sin

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.