Quotes About Sin

The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

There is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it.

A y regarder de près, les 7 péchés capitaux sont éminemment favorables à l'économie : l'envie, la gourmandise, la luxure font acheter, la colère fait travailler, la paresse fait jouir, l'orgueil avive la compétition et l'avarice favorise l'épargne. C'est d'ailleurs le propre du système capitaliste que de transformer ainsi tout ce qu'il touche, même le pire, en or.

When at last he could lift his head, he asked, "What have you done?" "What have I done?" She lifted a mocking brow. "Why, I've kidnapped the marquees of Northcliff." "You dare to admit it?" Inch by painful inch, he dragged himself onto the cot. "Admitting to it is the least of my sins. I did it.

Her scent enveloped him, drove him wild. Temptation and sin were wrapped around this exotic creature and he was falling over the edge fast.

He was going to burn in hell for this, but he'd already had a place reserved in the hottest inferno...

You look like an innocent angel, Shylah, but you kiss like fucking sin.

That direct stare spoke volumes of knowledge about secrets she suddenly needed to know. He hadn't said a word, but all she could think was sex. Sin.

In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, no child's behind left.

Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Even the constantly reiterated insistence that we are miserable offenders, born in sin, is a kind of inverted arrogance: such vanity, to presume that our moral conduct has some sort of cosmic significance, as though the Creator of the Universe wouldn't have better things to do than tot up our black marks and our brownie points.

Religion, then, partakes of equal elements of the canine and the feline. It exacts maximum servility and abjection, requiring you to regard yourself as conceived and born in sin and owing a duty to a stern creator. But in return, it places you at the center of the universe and assures you that you are the personal object of a heavenly plan.

If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.

Incidentally, by what awful ironic betrayal of our language do we find ourselves accusing bigots and tribalists of the sin of 'discrimination'? They are the ones who judge severely by category, and yet can't tell anyone apart. 'Discrimination' is only one of the moral and intellectual exercises that they are quite unable to perform.

Cuanto peor es el infractor, más devoto resulta ser.

ground)—"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"—has entered our literature and our consciousness. This episode

La vida es azarosa e injusta, y el pecado, por muy original que sea, queda generalmente impune.

The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.

Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God's creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.

Spiritual warfare is not about naming territorial spirits, claiming the ground or binding demons. It is all about the gospel. It is to live a gospel life, to preserve gospel unity and to proclaim gospel truth. It is to do this in the face of a hostile world, a deceptive enemy and our own sinful natures. And it is to pray to a sovereign God for gospel opportunities. Advance comes through godliness, unity, proclamation and prayer. Timothy Chester, on Ephesians 621

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Stipendium peccati mors est.

I've won Satan's lottery.