Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Sin

1.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

2.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

3.

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

Seneca

4.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

5.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

6.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

7.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

8.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

Saying, Jewish

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Bernanos, Georges

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Gould, Gerald

19.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

25.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

26.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

27.

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

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Maher, Bill

31.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Irvine, Robert

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

40.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

41.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Auden, W. H.

43.

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

Pavese, Cesare

44.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

45.

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

46.

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

Nash, Ogden

47.

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

48.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

50.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre