Quotes About Sin

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint! Unde das mit Recht; denn alles was entsteht ist werth daß es zu Grunde geht; Drum besser wär's daß nichts entstünde. So ist denn alles was ihr Sünde, Zerstörung, kurz das Böse nennt, Mein eigentliches Element.

MEPHISTO. I am the spirit that says no, no, Always! And how right I am! For surely It's right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me's the element in which I swim.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

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

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

There's no human remedy for sin.

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

I have lived a carnal life.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.