Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.

Proverb, Italian

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

10.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Pavese, Cesare

15.

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

Maher, Bill

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Read, Piers Paul

18.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Gould, Gerald

20.

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

21.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

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

Irvine, Robert

27.

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

Augustine, St.

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

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

Seneca

31.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

32.

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

33.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

34.

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

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

Bernanos, Georges

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Marshall, Peter

38.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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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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

42.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

43.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

44.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

45.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

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

49.

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

Saying, Jewish