Sin Quotes

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

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.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

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.

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.

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.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

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.

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.