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.

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Marshall, Peter

18.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Pascal, Blaise

23.

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

24.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

25.

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

Maher, Bill

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

Pavese, Cesare

28.

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

Gould, Gerald

29.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

34.

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

Read, Piers Paul

35.

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

Bernanos, Georges

36.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Italian

43.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

Talmud, The

47.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

48.

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

Ovid

49.

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