Quotes About Sin

Allegorically (St. Cyril of Alexandria, Catena of the Greek Fathers): the setting of Christ's birth points us to the Eucharist. Since through sin man becomes like the beasts, Christ lies in the trough where animals feed, offering them, not hay, but his own body as life-giving bread.

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

it is not their sins per se that characterized evil people, rather it is the subtlety and persistence and consistency of their sins. This is because the central defect of evil is not the sin but the refusal to acknowledge it

Al diablo ahora mismo vendería mi alma si yo no fuese el diablo mismo!

Mind and Nature – don't speak to Christians so. That's why men burn atheists, below, Such speech is dangerous, all right, Nature is sin, and Mind's the devil,

And, though God may still forgive, Be damned on earth while you live!

We were invaded today, Lord Malory." "By a bunch of ungodly thieves and sellers of sin," Reverend Biggs said most indignantly. Walter latched on to the word "ungodly," asking, "These are different from Godly thieves, I take it?" He was being sarcastic,but the good reverend took him seriously instead, answering stiffly, "Heathens usually are, m'lord.

Praise is the great act of rebellion against sin, the great repudiation of our wicked refusal to acknowledge God to be the Lord.

John offered baptism in order to help his fellow Jews repent, but Christ, who was sinless, did not need to repent. Rather, Jesus' submission to baptism foreshadows his work on the cross, where although he had no sin of his own, he "made himself sin" (2 Corinthians 5:21) in order to wipe away our sins.

To the French, sin—provided it is conceived with imagination and carried off with flair—is like the dust on an old bottle of burgundy, the streaks of gray in the hair of a loved one, the gleam of long, loving use on the mahogany of an ancient cabinet. It's evidence of endurance, of survival, of life.

There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

But forasmuch as the Passage was wonderful narrow ... it showed me that none could enter into Life, but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left this wicked World behind them; for here was only room for Body and Soul, but not for Body and Soul, and Sin.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley.

Doctrine and Covenants 111:11: "Therefore, be ye as wise as serpents and yet without sin; and I will order all things for your good, as fast as ye are able to receive them.

No morally imperfect human being(s), born into "the double darkness of sin and ignorance" could ever qualify for the position of Master Utilitarian Manipulator that Consequentialism needs to be put into practice.

Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

For all the expiations have no other meaning than that God will be always merciful, as often as the sinner shall flee to the refuge of his pardon.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.