Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Saying, Jewish

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

Irvine, Robert

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

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

Camus, Albert

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Scottish

10.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

11.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Pavese, Cesare

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

16.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Read, Piers Paul

23.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

24.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

25.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

26.

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

Maher, Bill

27.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

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

Pavese, Cesare

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Talmud, The

32.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

35.

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

Gould, Gerald

36.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

37.

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

38.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

39.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Augustine, St.

42.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Italian

47.

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

Marshall, Peter

48.

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

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

50.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French