Sin Quotes

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

There is no sin but ignorance.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

It is a sin to be poor.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

Being seventy is not a sin.