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

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

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Ovid

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

Hubbard, Kin

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

13.

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

14.

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

Gould, Gerald

15.

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

Nash, Ogden

16.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Irvine, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

Bernanos, Georges

23.

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

Sharpe, Cecil J.

24.

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

Maher, Bill

25.

Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

29.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

30.

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

Marshall, Peter

31.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Dane, Frank

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

38.

A sin confessed is half forgiven.

Proverb, French

39.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

40.

All sins cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Pavese, Cesare

46.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

47.

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

Colby, Frank Moore

48.

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