Quotes About Sin

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin.

Ye are fallen from grace.

Hell is indefinite.

The cunning livery of hell.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

Cruelty is the only sin.

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.