Motivational Quotes

Sin

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Seneca

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

Gould, Gerald

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.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

If others have sinned you need not mention it

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

Ovid

10.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Maher, Bill

12.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

13.

The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.

Sharpe, Cecil J.

14.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

15.

God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

17.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

19.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Marshall, Peter

20.

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

21.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.

Read, Piers Paul

22.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

23.

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

Nash, Ogden

24.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people.

Bible

25.

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

Bernanos, Georges

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

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

Irvine, Robert

29.

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

30.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

35.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Pascal, Blaise

36.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

38.

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

39.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

40.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Pavese, Cesare

42.

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