What Is A Sin Quotes

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

So many laws argues so many sins.

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

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

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!