Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Saying, Jewish

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Nash, Ogden

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ovid

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Talmud, The

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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.

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

Marshall, Peter

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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

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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

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Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

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

Read, Piers Paul

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Maher, Bill

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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

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A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Seneca

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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

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

Bible

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Italian

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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

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

Saying, Jewish

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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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