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Quotes About Sin

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
~ Thomas a Kempis
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
~ Joyce Meyer
Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Your beauty is tragic.It is the sweetest sin, Heaven ever created!
~ Shillpi S Banerrji
Music is the brandy of the damned.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Rock's always been the devil's music.
~ David Bowie
Our murmuring is the devil's music.
~ Thomas Watson
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.
~ Oscar Wilde
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
~ Huldrych Zwingli
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
~ Martin Luther
This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.
~ Heinrich Bullinger
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
~ John Calvin
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
~ Herman Bavinck
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
~ Simone Weil
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
~ Walter Lang
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
~ George Whitefield
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
~ Philip Yancey
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
~ Miles J. Stanford
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
~ Matthew Simpson
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
~ Thomas Brooks
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
~ Jupiter Hammon