What Is A Sin Quotes

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

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

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.