Sin Quotes

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.

Repentance is but want of power to 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.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

A "sin" is something which is not necessary.

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

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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

Humanity is the sin of God.

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.