Quotes About Sin

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors.

I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs

Dispara, Sokolov, sobre este mundo lujoso y ridículo. y cuando en esos espejos cuarteados por tus trazos se dibujen como una sobreimpresión las nínfulas al retocarse los labios, que tu ubicuidad sea el reflejo multiplicado de los vicios de la tierra.

Talvez todos mereçamos ir para o inferno, mas alguns merecem ir antes dos outros.