Motivational Quotes

Sin

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Sin

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...

Gould, Gerald

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Colby, Frank Moore

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Mandeville, Bernard

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God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

Irvine, Robert

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Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

Saying, Jewish

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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

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If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Camus, Albert

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Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.

Mccomb, John H.

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A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

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I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Bernanos, Georges

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Everything that used to be a sin, is now a disease.

Maher, Bill

23.

But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it. [Genesis 4:7]

Bible

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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Nash, Ogden

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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. [Romans 3:23]

Bible

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If others have sinned you need not mention it

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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Connolly, Cyril

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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

Ovid

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The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Pavese, Cesare

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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

39.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

Pavese, Cesare

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

Auden, W. H.

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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. [Numbers 32:23]

Bible

42.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Wilde, Oscar

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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

Talmud, The

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Augustine, St.

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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.