Sins Quotes

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

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.

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

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.