Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Read, Piers Paul

Best Quotes about Sin

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

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Augustine, St.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

If others have sinned you need not mention it

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

11.

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

Read, Piers Paul

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

16.

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

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

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.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

23.

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

Maher, Bill

24.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

25.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

29.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

30.

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

Pascal, Blaise

31.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

37.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

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

Bernanos, Georges

39.

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

Proverb, Scottish

40.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

42.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

43.

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

44.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.

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

Nash, Ogden

46.

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.

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Irvine, Robert

49.

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

Saying, Jewish

50.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.