Quotes About Sin

In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Man is no helpless invalid left in a valley of total depravity until God pulls him out. Man is rather an upstanding human being whose vision has been impaired by the cataracts of sin and whose soul has been weakened by the virus of pride, but there is sufficient vision left for him to lift his eyes unto the hills, and there remains enough of God's image for him to turn his weak and sin-battered life toward the Great Physician, the curer of the ravages of sin.

We must recognize that Jesus was nailed to the cross not simply by sin but also by blindness. The men who cried, "Crucify him," were not bad men but rather blind men. The jeering mob that lined the roadside which led to Calvary was composed not of evil people but of blind people. They knew not what they did. What a tragedy!

Coleman: It's always the best ones go to hell. Me, probably straight to heaven I'll go, even though I blew the head off poor dad. So long as I go confessing to it anyways. That's the good thing about being Catholic. You can shoot your dad in the head and it doesn't even matter at all.

makes Satan's offers so alluring and so deceptive is that they look so right. The Devil is in the business of making sin look harmless, attractive, and promising. The problem is that Eve didn't stop to evaluate what was really happening. She didn't take the time to discern truth from error. She didn't stop to consider the cost and the consequences of what she was about to do.

love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin

People, especially some religious people. would have us believe that it is wrong . even a sin, to love oneself. It is not. It is the basic, essential love. If you do not love yourself, you cannot possibly love anyone else. Not fully and truly.

Le mauvais gout mène au crime.

Le mauvais goût méne au crime[

The eight sin, deadlier than all- self transcendence through misplaced devotion-is not included in the list.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister. - Rev. John Hale

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants...

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard.

the origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for both imply optimism. However, evil and sin, both in their terrible magnitude, cannot be disavowed; indeed, because of the promised punishments for the latter, the former is only further increased. Whence all this, in a world that is either itself a God or the well-intentioned work of a God?

Asceticism is the denial of the will to live; and the transition from the Old Testament to the New, from the dominion of Law to that of Faith, from justification by works to redemption through the Mediator, from the domain of sin and death to eternal life in Christ, means, when taken in its real sense, the transition from the merely moral virtues to the denial of the will to live.

Directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard

Aqueles demónios com aspecto humano, os escravocratas e comerciantes de escravos nos estados livres da América do Norte (que deveriam ser chamados de estados escravistas), são, em regra, anglicanos ortodoxos e devotos, que considerariam um grave pecado trabalhar aos domingos e que, contando com a sua obediência e com a sua ida assídua à igreja, entre outras coisas, esperam a salvação eterna.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.

If man is a totally depraved being, can he possibly take the first step in the matter of his return to God?

God is light (1 John 1:5), as well as love; and because He is such, sin cannot be ignored, its heinousness minimized, nor its guilt cancelled.