Quotes About Sin

I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years... This is the only real evil left...

You killed them, Reuben. You killed them in their sins! You terminated their destiny on this earth. You snatched from them any chance for repentance, for redemption. You took that from them. You took it all, Reuben. You snuffed out forever the years of reparation they might have lived! You took life itself from them and you took it from their descendants, and yes, even from their victims, you took what their amends might have been.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

And how is evil achieved? He asked. How does one fall from grace and become in one instant as evil as the mob tribunal of the revolution or the most cruel of the Roman emperors? Does one merely have to miss mass on Sunday or bite down on the communion host? Or steal a loaf of bread...or sleep with a neighbor's wife.

Oh, it seems a sin to ask compassion of the dead, those who died in pain, those I couldn't save, those for whom I didn't have the right farewells

But if evil is without gradation, and it does exist, this state of evil, then only one sin is needed. Isn't that what you are saying? That God exists and.…' " 'I don't know if God exists,' I said. 'And for all I do know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ He doesn't exist.' " 'Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.

Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.' 'That's not true. Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually...it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life...every second of it...is all we have.

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.

Hell is hatred.

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.

it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?' " 'Yes, I think it is,' I said to him. 'It's not logical, as you would make it sound. But it's that dark, that empty. And it is without consolation.

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.

Horror and moral terror can never be exonerated. They have no real value. Pure evil has no real place.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence... to lose the false sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.

Essere ateo è probabilmente il primo passo per giungere all'innocenza», continuò Marius. «Perdere il senso del peccato e della subordinazione e il falso rimpianto per le cose perdute.» «Quindi, per innocenza tu non intendi la mancanza di esperienza ma l'assenza di illusioni.» «L'assenza del bisogno di illusioni», rispose lui.

And won't you take absolution from me, Vittorio!" he said. His voice rose, and his chest seemed to increase in size. "Vittorio and Ursula, take my absolution." "No, Father," I said. "we cannot take it. We don't want it." "But why?" "Because, Father," said Ursula kindly, "we plan to sin again as soon as we possibly can.

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We

In rambling drunken confession, the father gave forth his guilt as though it belonged to anyone who roused.

De ce te face asta la fel de rau ca oricare vampir? Nu exista gradatii ale raului? E raul cumva o prapastie periculoasa in care cadem dupa primul pacat, prabusindu-ne in adancuri?

The intimacy with evil is something which I must bear.

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me?