Quotes About Sin

The Caliph is the preeminent political and religious leader of all Muslims, high above all Muslims, even over Imams. Shi'a believe that the Imams are chosen by Allah to be perfect examples for the faithful and that all Imams chosen are chosen by God, are free from committing any sin, and have the same status as a prophet.

These are deadly serious thoughts, just as aborting babies is a deadly serious national sin.

John wrote in Revelation 17 that Babylon was the "mother" of abominations. In other words, an innovator and pioneer of promoting sin. Once America 'birthed' the killing of babies, others quickly concluded they should follow our lead and do the same.

The literal translation of the word "sin" is missing the mark. Are we blind to how far we are from 'hitting the mark'? Since current polls and demographic studies show that Christians living in America are divorcing, abusing, over-indulging, bankrupting or adultering at rates that don't differ from non-Christians, we have to admit our blindness.

America also has sinned grievously since 1973 in allowing, by law, the killing of as many as fifty five million American babies in, and emerging from, their mothers' wombs. Does anyone seriously think that this carnage would have been allowed to happen if the Church had arisen with one voice and said 'we will not abide the legalized murder of our children in the womb'?

Luxor has long had a reputation as the Sin City of Egypt. Archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University, presently working in the local Temple of Mut, have shown how sex and booze were key aspects of rites carried out by the locals to appease the pharaonic-era gods.

The unpardonable sin is committed only by lost people, and then it is the sin of those who do not want to be saved and deliberately refuse salvation. There is no other unpardonable sin.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Pride, indeed, is not only the sin by which Lucifer falls in Christian angelography, but it peoples Tartarus also in heathen legends; and the boastful Salmoneus, whose insane ambition aspires to mimic the thunder of Jove, is always the first to be blasted by the bolt.

When religion becomes organised, man ceases to be free. It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority and not violation of integrity.

Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.

We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.

God bends even our sins to his purpose.

Religion is sin when it makes God into something which we can handle.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out: The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness."

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.