Quotes about sin

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“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”

“Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.”

“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”

“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot… It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”

“The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.”

“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”

“Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.”

“Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

“There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.”

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

“The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.”

“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”

“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.”

“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”

“Jesus died
For somebody's sins
But not mine.”

“Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.”

“To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

“We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.”

“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.”

“My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward.”

“It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans… We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.”

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”

“Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”

“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.”

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”

“AZRAEL:

No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater… than central air.”

“Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?'
Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.'
Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?'
Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?”

“To me, the only sin is mediocrity.”

“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”

“Justified means just as if you've never sinned.”

“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

“I feel a sin coming on.”

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

“I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere”

“The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind”

“You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks."
"He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin."
Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice."
"It's very nice. I highly recommend it.”

“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”

“Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.”

“When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.”

“The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.”

“To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.”

“It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.”

“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”

“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”

“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”

“Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”

“Vivo sin vivir en mí… muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive… I die because I am not dying.)”

“We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”

“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

“Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.”

“In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.”

“[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care… They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.”

“What happened to you? (Sin)
Was mistaken for a punching bag again. But what the hell, I’m used to it. (Xypher)”

“Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin)
Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)”

“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.”

“The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean. It only has to open it's beak”

“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?… All will end in death, all!”

“All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.”

“The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.”

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”

“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”

“Jem is my greatest sin.”

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”

“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”

“The original sin is to limit the Is.”

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”

“Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.”

“If you have any care for Sin at all,
don't leave him in darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then to banish him from it. Even the
devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone - Acheron (Devil May Cry)”

“And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.”

“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”

“We… sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”

“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”

“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

“Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin…. We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.”

“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”

“We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.”

“Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.”

“Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”

“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”

“Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.”

“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.”

“Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.”

“Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.”

“Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.”

“… if there´s a beast, maybe he´s just a regular guy with a sin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.”

“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”

“This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes”

“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”

“I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.”

“Give me my powers back, Artemis, or I’ll take your daughter’s life. (Sin)
Damn boy, you have an unholy gift for pissing off people. Why don’t you tell her that dress makes her look fat while you’re at it? (Kat)”