What Is A Sin Quotes

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

Prayerlessness is sin.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.

...But until then, I'ma shine to the last sin, Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.