Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Seneca

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Irvine, Robert

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

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

Ovid

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Bible

10.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

11.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

12.

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

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

15.

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

16.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

19.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Seneca

22.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

24.

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

Gould, Gerald

25.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

26.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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.

29.

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

Pavese, Cesare

30.

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

Camus, Albert

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

37.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

38.

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

39.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

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

Pavese, Cesare

42.

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

Saying, Jewish

43.

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

Read, Piers Paul

44.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

45.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

48.

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

49.

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

Maher, Bill

50.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French