Quotes About Sin

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.