Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Sin

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Pavese, Cesare

10.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Irvine, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

Pavese, Cesare

18.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

21.

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

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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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 sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

Talmud, The

28.

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

Maher, Bill

29.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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

Auden, W. H.

32.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

33.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

Read, Piers Paul

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

Saying, Jewish

38.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

Bible

42.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Bernanos, Georges

45.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

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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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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

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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