Quotes About Sin

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

God is always at war with sin

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Every man to the Devil his own way—as

But here's an even better truth: God knows you can't make it right. None of it. But He can. The day I took a good look at my sins—my real sins—was the day I discovered 1 John 1:9. 'But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

We are accountable because we are sinful. The unfortunate truth is that Adam chose to sin, and so do we. But the good news is that God gives us a way out, through Christ. Accountability and forgiveness in one shot. All we have to do is accept it. It's pretty easy.

It was said of Dante that he always had time for lechery.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Villa Marchese ," she murmured, a shiver of excitement running through her. " Bellisima! " But her father glared, first at the villa, then at her. "Indeed," he said coldly. "It's amazing what the wages of sin can buy these days.

What can I say? You bring out the devil in me." "That's not a comforting thing to tell a pastor's daughter,

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!