What Is A Sin Quotes
One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.
If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.
Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.
You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.