Quotes About Sin

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

When the devil is called the God of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you."

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

We should eliminate sin if we wish to eliminate the scourge of tyrants.

But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.

To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.

San Gregorio dice: "El pecado que no se deshace por la penitencia, en seguida arrastra por su peso a otro pecado".

Therefore, brothers, whensoever ye perceive that ye offend God in any thing, despair not, fly unto repentance, be sorry for your sinful living; bewail your wicked manners, thirst after strength to do the will of God, confess your sins from the very heart, call for grace, desire mercy, and pray unto God that he will forgive you your faults, and he will undoubtedly remit and forgive you all the faults, sins, and trespasses that ye ever committed against him.

like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)

Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.

There is no way under heaven to be interested in Christ, but by believing. He that believeth shall be saved, let his sins, be ever so great; and he that believeth not shall be damned, let his sins be ever so little.

One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.

Sins against God's mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon men's heads and hearts. Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.