Motivational Quotes

Sin

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]

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Best Quotes about Sin

1.

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

Gould, Gerald

2.

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

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3.

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

Hubbard, Kin

4.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

5.

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

Ovid

6.

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

7.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

9.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

10.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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]

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12.

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

Marshall, Peter

13.

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.

14.

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

Read, Piers Paul

15.

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

Seneca

16.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

18.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.

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

Maher, Bill

20.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

21.

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

22.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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]

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24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

26.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

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

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29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Pavese, Cesare

31.

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

32.

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

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

36.

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

Pavese, Cesare

37.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

39.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Saying, Jewish

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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