Quotes About Sin

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Avarice is a deadly sin.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Sin is geographical.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.