Quotes About Sin

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

God builds for every sinner, if he will but come back, a highway of golden promises from the depths of degradation and sin clear up to the Father's house.

Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

If one could wallow amid filth for half a life and then wash himself clean in a day, then sin would be no worse than dirt on the hands which water can cleanse in a minute. Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.

God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

The path of the sinner back to God is brighter and brighter all the way up to the smile of the face and the touch of the hand; and that is salvation.

there was only this one life to live; the unpardonable sin was to waste it.

The rise and fall of Teresa Cornelys proves three things: that the wages of sin are high, that you should "just say no" to opera, and that it's always wise to diversify your investment portfolio.

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

The newspaper man, listening, thought, "An infant gone mad with her dolls. Or no, vice has lost its humanness. She's the symbol of new sin—the unhuman, passionless whirligig of baby girls and baby boys through the cabarets.

inverse of the word live is evil.

Humans do not die simply because of Adam's sin, but because of Adam's and their own sin.

Sin unto death" therefore, is not any act of sin however heinous, but a state or habit of sin wilfully chosen and persisted in: it is the constant and consummate opposition to God. In the phraseology of this Epistle we might say that it is the deliberate and persistent preference of darkness to light, of falsehood to truth, of sin to righteousness, of the world to the Father, of spiritual death to eternal life.i97

if err we must, and assume that "where there is life, there is hope" for any sinner.

Everything that God said about redemption means, the saving grace allowed you to be forgiven.

Oh, señora condesa, parece que ha adivinado usted mi pensamiento! Como usted, yo he observado la corrupción de las costumbres, hija de la desenvoltura francesa; como usted, he observado el descuido de las madres, la ceguera de los padres, la malicia de las tías, la complicidad de las primas y la debilidad de las abuelas; y he dicho: «orden, rigor, cautela, reclusión, tiranía, o si no dentro de poco la sociedad se precipitará en los abismos del pecado».

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.