Sin Quotes

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

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.

By that sin fell the angels.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.