Quotes About Sin

The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.