Sin Quotes

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

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

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.

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.

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.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

It's a sin to swear.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

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.