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Quotes About Sin

At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am glad of it. For I now no longer have the time to fall into such sins as I committed as a girl, when hours that were my own to spend spread before me like a gift.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
~ William Davenant
To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.
~ Christopher Marlowe
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
~ Albert Camus
All sins cast long shadows.
~ Irish proverb
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.
~ Moliere
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.
~ Ogden Nash
Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
~ Thorstein Veblen
George Edward Herbert
~ Poverty is no sin.
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
~ Oswald Chambers
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
~ Matthew Prior
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
~ Arabic proverb
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
~ John Dryden
The way of transgressors is hard.
~ Bible
He who complains, sins.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
~ Jimmy Carter
O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!
~ R. H. Dana
The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
~ Rudyard Kipling
In Adam's Fall We sinned all.
~ New England Primer
0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.
~ Omar Khayyam
The way of transgressors is hard.s
~ Bible
He who talks too much commits a sin.
~ Talmud
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
~ Bible
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
~ Proverbs