Quotes About Sin

If forgiveness does take place it will be but an echo of the forgiveness granted by the just and loving God-- the only forgiveness that ultimately matters, because, though we must forgive, in a very real sense no one can either forgive or retain sins 'but God alone.

And so in this twilight and evening of the world, when sin is flourishing on every side and in every place, when charity is growing cold, the evil of witches and their iniquities superabound

When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.

The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts his business? A sparrow for a small deception, but a paradise flycatcher and a monal pheasant for allowing a doubt about His existence to enter the mind.

You get used to being evil.

You'd better tell me about that lie, Giles, said the old man, massaging his forehead. From all the sin you keep going on about, I'm sure it's going to be spectacular.

The wages of sin is death!" Many have read this in the Bible, but few have discovered its meaning. Now, and for several years, the entire world has been listening by force, to a sermon which might well be called "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

También nosotros somos llamados a ello, a través de aquel martirio interior que es la «compunción» - como la llamaba la tradición ascética y mística-, es decir, el corazón que se deja traspasar por el pecado de la humanidad, porque «el Amor no es amado», porque «Dios no es conocido», porque «Cristo es ofendido».

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Every morning she went to the eight o'clock service at the basilica of Santa María del Mar, and she confessed no less than three times a week, four in warm weather. Don Gustavo, who was a confirmed agnostic (which Bernarda suspected might be a respiratory condition, like asthma, but afflicting only refined gentlemen), deemed it mathematically impossible that the maid should be able to sin sufficiently to keep up that schedule of confession and contrition.

Esta gente que ve pecado en todas partes está enferma del alma y, si me apuras, de los intestinos.

Funny people, the Swiss," he said. "While the rest of us hide our sins, they stuff theirs with liqueur, wrap them in silver paper, add a ribbon, and sell them at the price of gold. The prefect has just sent me a huge box of chocolates from Zurich

Basta convencer al santurrón de que está libre de todo pecado para que empiece a tirar piedras, o bombas, con entusiasmo.

All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they'll start throwing stones, or bombs, with gusto. In fact, it doesn't take much, because they can be convinced with the bare minimum of encouragement and excuses.

All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they'll start throwing stones, or bombs, with gusto.

One can covert only a sinner, never a saint.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

These people who see sin everywhere are sick in their souls and, if you really press me, in their bowels too.

El único pecado que no se perdona en España es el de no tomar bando y resistirse a unirse a un rebaño u otro

Vanitas peccata mundi.

These people who see sin everywhere are sick in their souls and, if you really press me, in their bowels. The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation.

The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and the feeble-minded as intellectual

Don Gustavo, que se declaraba agnóstico (lo cual la Bernarda sospechaba era una afección respiratoria, como el asma, pero de señoritos), opinaba que era matemáticamente imposible que la criada pecase lo suficiente como para mantener semejante ritmo de confesión.

How did I fail my son so much that he'd betray what we believe? What great sin have I committed that I have to bear this burden?