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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Nash, Ogden

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

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maher, Bill

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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.

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

Marshall, Peter

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Irvine, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

16.

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

Gould, Gerald

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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

18.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

19.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Pavese, Cesare

22.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

23.

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

Bible

24.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

Saying, Jewish

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.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

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.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

31.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

35.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

36.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

Augustine, St.

42.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

43.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

44.

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

Read, Piers Paul

45.

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

Pascal, Blaise

46.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

47.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

48.

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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A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

50.

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

Bernanos, Georges