What Is A Sin Quotes

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for Sin could not atone: Thou must save, and Thou alone!

The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the more difficult it is to give an account.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.