Sins Quotes

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

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

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.

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.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

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.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

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.

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?

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

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.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

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.

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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