Sin Quotes

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

It's a sin to be tired.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

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.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I know what sin is.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.