Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Sin

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Talmud, The

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Marshall, Peter

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

Read, Piers Paul

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The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Seneca

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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 cast long shadows.

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Make peace with man and war with your sins.

Proverb, Russian

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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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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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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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bible

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Gide, Andre

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

Irvine, Robert

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

Maher, Bill

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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

33.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

34.

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

35.

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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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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A sin is something which is not necessary.

Gurdjieff, George

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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Cowper, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

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