Quotes About Sin

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

have sinned enough against the world," Raistlin said dryly. "Teaching magic to

Il est étrange que pour nos chrétiens les prétendues désordres de la chair constituent le mal par excellence, dit méditativement Zénon. Personne ne punit avec rage et dégoût la brutalité, la sauvagerie, la barbarie, l'injustice. Nul demain ne s'avisera de trouver obscènes les bonnes gens qui viendront regarder mes tressautements dans les flammes.

we are punished by our sins, not for them. Your mistakes, no matter how bad you might think they were, did not emanate from your self as He created you. Thats why remembering who you truly are is the key to deliverance from the flames of self condemnation.

I know that many men are living in the tangles of sin, but too weak of will to break the net in which they have become voluntarily imprisoned.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Two or three of the ladies had pronounced views on points of doctrine, particularly sin and damnation, which they never learned from me. I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned. And television is worse. You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten. I do wonder where it will end. p. 208

Thinking about hell doesn't help me live the way I should. I believe this is true for most people. And thinking that other people might go to hell just feels evil to me, like a very grave sin. So I don't want to encourage anyone else to think that way either.

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.

There were, in fact, several churches whose visions of sin and salvation were so ecstatic, and so nearly identical, that the superiority of one church over another could be argued only in terms of good works. And the obligation to perform these works rested squarely with the women, since salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins.

he sells the souls in his keeping to the devil.

I asked god for a bike, but i know god doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

He reminded him that whatever sins were committed here on earth, no man must forget that eternal forgiveness awaited him if he were a proper Christian.