Quotes About Sin

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

O Reader! If there were less of this delicate concealment of facts- this whispering ''Peace, Peace, when there is no peace- there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

but if I hate the sins I love the sinner

I went around saying for a long time that I am not one of those Christians who is heavily into forgiveness -- that I am one of the other kind. But even though it was funny, and actually true, it started to be too painful to stay this way. They say we are not punished for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.

They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.

Don't be mean to yourself, though . . .this is the only sin.

Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.

Sin is not the adult bookstore on the corner. It is the hard heart, the lack of generosity, and all the isms, racism and sexism and so forth. But is there a crack where a ribbon of light might get in, might sneak past all the roadblocks and piles of stones, mental and emotional and cultural? We

Jealousy is a terrible sine and a vicious companion: an animal that eats and claws and gives no quarter. - Pg. 167

In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it the fear of the Lord, being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.

One man's sin does not justify another's.

If a man could only learn that you are not punished for the sin, but by it.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Yes, I know, And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable, and the price of it was Hell.