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Quotes About Sin

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
~ Saint Augustine
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
By that sin fell the angels.
~ William Shakespeare
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
~ John Shelby Spong
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
~ Charles Spurgeon
Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
~ Jon Ronson
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
~ William Shakespeare
You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
~ Martin Scorsese
I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.
~ Frankie Boyle
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
Abortionists are not the enemy. Our enemy is sin.
~ Abby Johnson
Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.
~ Tiny Tim
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
I believe we're broken by sin upon birth.
~ Charlie Kirk
I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
~ Veronica Franco
Slavery was our nation's original sin.
~ William Barr
Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.
~ Benjamin Watson
No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.
~ Vincent McNabb
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
~ William Bratton
Catholics everywhere squirm at the ostentatious piety of Pelosi and her fellow apostate Joe Biden. If they must sin, can they at least keep religion out of it?
~ Miranda Devine
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
~ Saint Ignatius
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
~ George A. Smith
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it.
~ Franklin Graham