Quotes About Sin

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

It is like confessing to a murder.