What Is A Sin Quotes

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

So many laws argues so many sins.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

There's no human remedy for sin.

You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.