What Is A Sin Quotes

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

The only sin is stupidity.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

It's a sin to bore people.

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.

Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin

The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.