Quotes About Sin

I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

Broadminded though we take ourselves to be, lust gets a bad press. It is the fly in the ointment, the black sheep of the family, the ill- bred, trashy cousin of upstanding members like love and friendship.

The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

When I am tempted and feel the power of sin and its tug on my affections, the gospel gives me something to say: 'Christ bled and died for this sin—I will therefore have nothing to do with it. I am now united to Christ by the indwelling of the Spirit—how can I drag him into my sin?

For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!"

In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming round our feet; Red hair she had and golden skin, Her sulky lips were shaped for sin, Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'd The strongest legs in Pontefract.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

The greatest sin is sinning against love.

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.