Motivational Quotes

Sin

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Sin

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.

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

If others have sinned you need not mention it

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

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

10.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

12.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Gould, Gerald

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Bible

20.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Seneca

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

Saying, Jewish

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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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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Read, Piers Paul

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