Sin Quotes

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

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

Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

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

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

The only sin is mediocrity.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Sin is geographical.

Competition is a sin.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?