Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Sharpe, Cecil J.

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Bernanos, Georges

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 saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Augustine, St.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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

Saying, Jewish

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Gould, Gerald

12.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

Maher, Bill

15.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

16.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

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

Pavese, Cesare

20.

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

21.

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

Seneca

22.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

23.

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Read, Piers Paul

28.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

29.

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

Pascal, Blaise

30.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

31.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

34.

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.

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Bible

38.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

39.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

40.

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

Irvine, Robert

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

43.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Pavese, Cesare

47.

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

48.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin

50.

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

Colby, Frank Moore