Quotes About Sin

All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.

One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.

The world of sin faces the world of grace like the reflected image of a landscape on the edge of a dark, deep stretch of water.

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience

The parade led by Evangelists screaming about sin and death and damnation.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Le péché vaut mieux que l'hypocrisie.

Yes, sin-ah, without the final yod that is also one of the letters in the name of God.

In this consisted the sin of Korah and his company, which caused Moses, though of great meekness of character, to be filled with wrath and anger, not because of their rejection of him as a mediator, but on account of their adverse opposition and antagonism to the principles of reconciliation, the existence of which they failed to perceive or ignored as operating in the preservation of the world.

I know very well that the theatre is Sodom and Gomorrah in one.

In The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the seventh circle of hell for people who charged usurious interest rates.

We believe in no wisdom that improves on Nature's laws, and one of those laws, written on our hearts, is that sorrow shall tread on the heels of sin. We are conscious that men should learn to welcome this law, and not to shrink from it. To fly from the suffering following on broken law is the last thing we should do.

The Christian is taught to see in the bleeding Christ the victim slain in his own place; he himself should be hanging on that cross, agonised and dying; those nail-pierced hands ought to be his; the anguish on that face should be furrowed on his own; the weight of suffering resting on that bowed head should be crushing himself into the dust. In the simplest meaning of the words, Christ is the sinner's substitute, and on him the sin of the world is laid.

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Though your sins are like scarlet, They will be made as white as snow; Though they are as red as crimson cloth, They will become like wool.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.