Quotes About Sin

Thus we are brought to the third circle of this hell, which, perhaps, will some day find its Dante.

the Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.

Everyone in the world is guilty of something.

This is the Italy I dreamed of, saints, snakes, gypsies, cutthroats in a baroque tutu of religion and sin.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. —PIERS PAUL READ

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.

the symptoms of depression, despair or melancholy, and lethargy were considered by the Church the sin of accidia or sloth.

When pardoners allowed the belief—though never explicitly stated by the popes—that indulgences could take care of future sins not yet committed, the Church had reached the point of virtually encouraging sin, as its critics did not fail to point out.

Supposed to be commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any penance for money, most of which they pocketed.

He that is without sin among you, let him be first to stone her.

The profound insight of the passage as a whole is that human wickedness in all its rank variety is a manifestation of one basic evil, namely, trust in ourselves rather than trust in God

As far as I am concerned, the notion that God requires a blood sacrifice to forgive the sins of humanity is easily the saddest, most hurtful, and most discouraging doctrine ever invented.

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

My sadness will but make thee weep; Thou'lt win no smile from me; So young a plant 'twere sin to keep Beneath woe's poison tree.

And secret sin must ever share The secret misery.

She had been warned at her convent school of the peril of toying with the male sex. Flirting was a sin, she was taught by the nuns, dangerous and pernicious, while coyness was indicative of an unstable mind

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different.