Motivational Quotes

Sin

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Scottish

10.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

11.

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

Maher, Bill

12.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

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

Saying, Jewish

15.

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

Nash, Ogden

16.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

20.

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

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Seneca

23.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

24.

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

Gould, Gerald

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

28.

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

29.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Read, Piers Paul

32.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

36.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

37.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Kipling, Rudyard

42.

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

Pavese, Cesare

43.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

44.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

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

46.

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

Marshall, Peter

47.

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

Irvine, Robert

48.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

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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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Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

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