Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

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Best Quotes about Sin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Read, Piers Paul

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Seneca

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ovid

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

Irvine, Robert

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A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gould, Gerald

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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

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I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Augustine, St.

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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.

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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Talmud, The

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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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

Saying, Jewish

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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

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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

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Maher, Bill

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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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

Marshall, Peter

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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

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All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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