Quotes About Sin

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.