Sins Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

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

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

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

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

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.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.