What Is A Sin Quotes

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.

Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

The wages of sin is debugging.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.