Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Read, Piers Paul

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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

Bible

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

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

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Nash, Ogden

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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

19.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

20.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

21.

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

Saying, Jewish

22.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

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.

24.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

25.

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

Pavese, Cesare

26.

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

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Gould, Gerald

30.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

32.

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

33.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

34.

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

Bible

35.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

36.

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

Irvine, Robert

37.

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

38.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

41.

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