Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

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

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gould, Gerald

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

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

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

Nash, Ogden

16.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

20.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

21.

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

Pavese, Cesare

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Maher, Bill

25.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

Read, Piers Paul

28.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

30.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Marshall, Peter

33.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

34.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

35.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

36.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Seneca

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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.

41.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

42.

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

Saying, Jewish

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

45.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

48.

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

Irvine, Robert

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.