Quotes About Sin

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

The wicked are great drinkers of water; As the flood proved once for all.

God won't give the devil the pleasure of receiving a priest.

Avoir commis, pour te posséder, rapt, violence et adultère, et, pour te conserver, hésiter devant un nouveau crime ?... perdre mon âme pour si peu ? Satan en rirait ; tu es folle ... Non ... non, tu es à moi comme l'homme est au malheur ....

It is wicked of you to call on the wrath of God to satisfy your jealousy!

that the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation. Since God himself dictated those words to his prophet, why should I seek to make myself better than God?

la maldad de los hombres es muy profunda!

V-am È›inut în braÈ›ele mele ca s? v? cruÈ› de furia puhoaielor, aÈ›i simÈ›it oare c? v-am strâns la piept? Nu. În mine nu mai d?inuie decât sufletul, È™i toat? f?ptura mea s-a cur??at de p?cate în focul mistuitor al dragostei mele.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self; and so terrible the power of evil in its constantly growing strength, till it casts out all fear of God or care for man.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

The truth was written upon us, as they say men's sins are written on their bones so that when they die their wicked deeds can be read as if written upon parchment.

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

Perhaps that was what my mother disliked most. I resembled her. I could not help but wonder if for some women, that was the worst sin of all.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

We don't need to make a living off of other people's pain...the newspapers want violence, retribution, crime, sin.

The devil loves these short, dark days.

What greater torment for a man whose sin was suicide than to be trapped forever in the body he'd sought to shed?