Sin Quotes

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

A "sin" is something which is not necessary.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

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.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.