Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Sin

1.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

2.

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

Auden, W. H.

3.

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

4.

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

Pascal, Blaise

5.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

6.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

7.

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

Augustine, St.

8.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

12.

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Maher, Bill

15.

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

16.

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

Saying, Jewish

17.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

18.

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

19.

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

Pavese, Cesare

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Talmud, The

22.

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

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

30.

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

Read, Piers Paul

31.

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

Irvine, Robert

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Marshall, Peter

35.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Ovid

40.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

41.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

42.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

43.

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

Nash, Ogden

44.

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

45.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

46.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

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

Seneca

48.

If others have sinned you need not mention it