Quotes About Sin

Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

God be merciful to me a sinner.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.

And the Lord set a mark upon Cain.

From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The way of transgressors is hard.

Without shedding of blood is no remission.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope.

Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much.

The old self, in other words, is what we are by nature: slaves to sin. However, Paul says to the believers at Colossae, since you have become one with Christ you are no longer slaves to sin, for you have taken off the old man or old self that was enslaved to sin and have put on the new self

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

O HAPPY FAULT! The Jewish mystic Baal Shem had a curious way of praying to God. "Remember, Lord," he would say, "you need me just as much as I need you. If you did not exist, whom would I pray to? If I did not exist, who would do the praying?" It brought me joy to think that if I had not sinned God would have had no occasion to be forgiving.

No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance. "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." To see this is to acquire the indiscriminate quality one so admires in the rose, the lamp and the tree.

There is no biological reason for sodomy. The body does not need it; society does not need it; in this sense it is not a sin involving the intemperate use of something good or morally neutral, nor is it a sin involving the misuse of such things. It is an act which by its nature frustrates the function of the organs of the body it employs.

Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand "evil" at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.