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

1.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

2.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Hoffer, Eric

7.

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

Marshall, Peter

8.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

9.

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

Pavese, Cesare

10.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Irvine, Robert

13.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Saying, Jewish

17.

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

Read, Piers Paul

18.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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]

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21.

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

Maher, Bill

22.

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

Auden, W. H.

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Gould, Gerald

30.

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

31.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

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

Nash, Ogden

33.

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

34.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

35.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

36.

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

37.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Pascal, Blaise

39.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

40.

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

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.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

43.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

47.

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

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48.

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

49.

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

Bernanos, Georges

50.

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

Pavese, Cesare