Quotes About Sin

As coisas desmoronam por vontade própria, mas os pecados dos homens aceleram sua degeneração.

The devil has taken possession of everybody in Ilhéus. All they think about is money and bigness. They're on the road to hell. Things are going to start happening…

Por isso na beleza do dia Pirulito mira o céu com os olhos crescidos de medo e pede perdão a Deus tão bom (mas não tão justo também…) pelos seus pecados e os dos Capitães da Areia. Mesmo porque eles não tinham culpa. A culpa era da vida…

Dona Rosàlia non avrebbe mai creduto che una prostituta si potesse suicidare per amore. Una prostituta si uccide per castigo dei suoi peccati, amen.

No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Cómo iba yo a creer en el pecado, una idea tan hija del orgullo? Si Dios es creador del Universo entero, ¿puede sentirse ofendido por una sabandija que le salió mal y que araña la superficie de un pequeño planeta? Hace falta tener una exageradísima idea de lo que es el hombre para creerle capaz de ofender a un infinito creador.

Temerosos de pensar, como si fincasen en ello el pecado mayor de los siete capitales, pierden la aptitud para todo juicio; por eso cuando un mediocre es juez, aunque comprenda que su deber 60 es hacer justicia, se somete a la rutina y cumple el triste oficio de no hacerla nunca y embrollarla con frecuencia.

The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils"

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.

God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.

Whenever he met with some politician who had qualms about hiring him to do oppo research—digging up dirt on a rival—Stoddard liked to quote Governor Willie Stark from All the King's Men: "Man is born in sin and conceived in corruption and passeth from the stench of the didie to the stink of the shroud. There is always something.

Where the father of the family brings sin home to the house, it is not easily swept out.

Happy is the man, that by an unfeigned repentance, acquits his soul from his known evils, and improves the days of his peace to the prevention of future vengeance, which if it be not done, the hand of God shall as surely overtake us in judgment, as the hand of Satan hath overtaken us in miscarriage unto sin.