Quotes About Sin

Because you took advantage of a sinner because you took advantage because you took because you took advantage of my disadvantage …

she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

A couple of years before, under the guidance of an intelligent French-speaking confessor, to whom, in a moment of metaphysical curiosity, I had turned over a Protestant's drab atheism for an old-fashioned popish cure, I had hoped to deduce from my sense of sin the existence of a Supreme Being.

Sin Fever," Wraith chimed in with a little too much enjoyment. Sin Fever? They'd named the fucking disease after her? Bastards.

I wonder what disgusts you more, the fact that I'm a demon, or the fact that when I touch you, it doesn't matter.

Besides, there wasn't a breed of succubi out there that didn't steal something. Whether it was your seed, your soul, your life-force, or your heart, they sucked something out of you and rarely gave back. Sin definitely did not strike him as the giving kind.

I don't try Sin. I do. Remember that.

He didn't give a shit what Sin did, who she "mated" with, or what she did with her assassin business. But this Lycus fucker was blackmailing her, and that just pissed him off. The sudden image of her naked, beneath a well-muscled body did'nt bother him at all. At. All.

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people's unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

IS IT A SIN TO BE AVERAGE?

I believe the primary reason for our long run of spiritual and cultural setbacks is something else. It's sin in the camp.

Yet, ironically, the one thing most people think accountability groups do best is what they don't do well at all. They're not good at preventing sin.

example, in Romans 6 and 8, Paul presents Jesus' death as able to have mortifying effects on the sinful tendencies of believers and Jesus' resurrection as able to provide powerful new moral resources to live changed lives that please "God.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin.

Haz caso al diablo y te recompensará con el infierno

The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.

It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries about sin because He craves righteousness, but also, simply, because He loves us.

This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us we'd be better off with pleasure in hell than sanctification in heaven.

He was covered in syrup, doughnut crumbs, and bacon grease.

The Dictionary [Emily] Dickinson used defined tender as 'anxious for another's good' and a pioneer as 'one that goes before another to remove obstruction or to prepare the way for another.' This seems to me a good way to think of Jesus: sojourning before us, clearing the brush, bushwhacking, even---removing the impediments of sin, making a path that will lead us to our true selves, and to God.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

L'uomo si ritrae in solitudine per peccare.