What Is A Sin Quotes

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

It is a sin to judge any man by his post

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.