Quotes About Sin

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

Calling sin righteous and righteousness sin will always bear consequences.

you can't spell assassin without sin and twice the ass.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity – enmity towards God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.

Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves. And never, never appear that you are virtuous and without sin. It it is the virtuous who have many enemies because for they shame the many without virtue.

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us in existence;

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave; Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?

He knew he had changed because when presently he took confession from a woman who had been using contraceptives and whose husband had left her, he did not equate the sin with the consequence.

Initium Adán y Eva. La serpiente partió el espejo en mil pedazos, y la manzana fue la piedra.

La misma acción puede ser horrible hoy y estupenda mañana, según quién la lleve a cabo; en la personalización continua del español, la calidad del hombre es la que determina la gravedad del pecado y no al revés.

Para la mayoría de los españoles ya resulta una gran sorpresa que alguien les hable de los Siete Pecados Capitales, porque el español se limita a pensar en uno, el de la lujuria.

El café debía ser caliente como el amor, dulce como el pecado y negro como el infierno.

El hombre en lo más hondo de lo más honde de su alma oscura es un ser malo, y mientras uno más vive y más lo conoce más malo es.

Y hoy que me es imposible volver a esa esquina del recuerdo a cometer el pecado no cometido, a reparar el mal no hecho, me mata el remordimiento.

Declarársele a la novia es asunto tan arduo para un chiquillo como confesarle al cura un pecado contra el sexto mandamiento un inexperto pecador.

What I need is a good defense 'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal And I need to be redeemed To the one I've sinned against Because he's all I ever knew of love.

And I will pretend That I don't know of your sins Until you are ready to confess But all the time, all the time, I'll know And you can use my skin To bury secrets in.

to deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.