Sin Quotes

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.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

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

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

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.

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.

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.