Sin Quotes

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

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

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

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

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.