Quotes About Sin

The only crime is pride.

TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing you are enemy to kith and kin in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.

I say that this crime is holy.

The blackest things a man can do, I have done them all!

Mark this, my son: all people fall into sin. But sinning, they are not for ever lost Hapless and helpless, who can make amends And has not set their face against repentance. Only a fool is governed by self-will.

Que otros se lamenten de que los tiempos son malos; yo me quejo de su mediocridad, puesto que ya no se tienen pasiones. ...Por eso mi alma se vuelve siempre al Viejo Testamento y a Shakespeare. Aquí se siente en todo caso la impresión de que son hombres los que hablan, aquí se odia y se ama de veras, se mata al enemigo, y se maldice a su descendencia por todas las generaciones; aquí se peca.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

We danced with the devil with demons in our heart.

To choose holiness is to reject sin.

Unclean life is ungodliness.

I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven.But life won't let me forget.

Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.

Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.

must confess the sin of envy. I have secretly envied those who enjoyed a success greater than mine or received more recognition. I've thought to myself, and even to God, Why not me? Didn't I work as hard or have as much talent? and so on. I know that is petty, but it is part of my fallen condition.

These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.

Her rash hand in evil hourForth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat,Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woeThat all was lost.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

However, let us give ourselves to the study of the word, and to prayer; and may the great Teacher make every scriptural truth food to our souls. I desire to grow in knowledge, but I want nothing which bears that name that has not a direct tendency to make sin more hateful, Jesus more precious to my soul; and at the same time to animate me to a diligent use of every appointed means, and an unreserved regard to every branch of duty.

understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.