Sin Quotes

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

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

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.