Sins Quotes

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

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

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.