Quotes About Sin

Wrath is the divine reaction to sin. Atonement is necessary because human beings stand under the wrath and judgment of God. "Unless we give real content to the wrath of God, unless we hold that men really deserve to have God visit upon them the painful consequences of their wrongdoing, we empty God's forgiveness of its meaning.

It is not at all clear that Paul conceived of baptism as the Christian equivalent of circumcision.65 The "circumcision of Christ" (Col. 2:11) is easiest to understand as the circumcision of the heart that Christ performs.66 This is an altogether spiritual event, one "made without hands," and is synonymous with dying to sin. Circumcision then stands in contrast to baptism, not in correlation with it.67

He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it.

The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.

He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin.

You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks." "He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it.

In traditional forms of the doctrine of original sin, human beings are said to have inherited two moral liabilities from their first ancestors, Adam and Eve. One is guilt: we are said to share in the guilt of the first sin that our ancestors committed. The other is corruption, a perversion of motivation that is itself evil and makes people likelier to do wrong deeds.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

one often feels guilt not because one has sinned but because one has been accused!

The robot said, 'I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of thi sevil into what you call good.' He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own owrds, he said, 'Go, and sin no more!

En el mito hebreo de Adán y Eva, el pecado que cometieron es el de adquirir conocimiento (al comer el fruto del árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal: es decir el conocimiento de todo) y por ello fueron expulsados del Edén y, según los teólogos cristianos, infectaron a toda la Humanidad con el «pecado original».

la mojigatería no es más que la cara opuesta de la lascivia.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

In Chile we suffer from a particular form of hypocrisy. We act as if we're scandalized by any little peccadillo someone else commits at the same time that we are stacking up barbarous sins in private.

por cada virtud hay un pecado, por cada alegría una desdicha, por cada mal un bien y así, en el eterno girar de la rueda de la vida todo se compensa a través de los siglos.

Pst! ¡Padre Restrepo! Si el cuento del infierno fuera pura mentira, nos chingamos todos...

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

La curiosidad es la madre de todos los pecados, pero también de todas las ciencias.

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words 'straight', 'square', and 'flat' the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?'

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.