Quotes About Sin

There is no sin as great as ignorance. Remember this.

What happens when a sin is committed? Usually the sinner flourishes.

And we pray in reparation, to make up for all those who won't or can't pray for themselves – especially anyone in grave sin. That's why communities say the longest and most arduous Office at night – the time when most sin is committed in the world.' 'You mean a little Carmelite might sit up and pray for a murderer?' 'She has, with results,' said Philippa.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Libertarians (like anarchists and Marxists) generally believe that human nature is good, though damaged by certain social institutions. Conservatives, on the contrary, hold that in Adam's fall we sinned all: human nature, though compounded of both good and evil, is irremediably flawed; so the perfection of society is impossible, all human beings being imperfect.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.

That's why my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

Socrates proved the immortality of the soul from the fact that the sickness of the soul (sin) does not consume it as sickness of the body consumes the body. So also we can demonstrate the eternal in man from the fact that despair cannot consume his self, that this precisely is the torment of contradiction in despair. If there were nothing eternal in a man, he could not despair; but if despair could consume his self, there would still be no despair.

Think of a sinner who is sinking in the abyss; listen to his cry of anguish when with his last groan he vindicates the justice his life has mocked and says: It is self-inflicted

words, rejecting the doctrine of sin

Sócrates tiene razón: cuando un hombre no hace lo correcto, es porque no lo entiende. Si lo entendiera, lo haría: por tanto, el pecado es ignorancia. El cristianismo tiene razón: el pecado es culpa. Porque cuando un hombre no hace lo correcto, es muy cierto que es porque no lo entiende, pues si lo entendiera… etc. Pero la razón por la que no entiende lo correcto es que no puede entenderlo, y no puede entenderlo porque no desea entenderlo. Y este es el punto.

Kierkegaard says: "An ethic which ignores sin is an absolutely idle science.

As soon as the single individual asserts himself in his singularity before the universal, he sins; and only by acknowledging this can he be reconciled again with the universal

Umorul are un scepticism mult mai profund decât ironia, fiindc? în sfera lui accentul cade asupra p?catului, nu asupra finitudinii. Nu-ÅŸi g?seÅŸte liniÅŸtea doar f?cându-l pe om s? fie om, ci f?cându-l pe om s? fie Dumnezeu-om.

metaphysics, the mood becomes that of dialectical uniformity and disinterestedness, which ponder sin as something that cannot withstand the scrutiny of thought. The concept of sin is also altered, for sin is indeed to be overcome, yet

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

they came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart.

No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.

Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

Within a religious framework, a belief in free will supports the notion of sin—which seems to justify not only harsh punishment in this life but eternal punishment in the next.