Quotes About Sin

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth's age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth's age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Prominent Christians in Constantine's time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a "major"sin that couldn't be forgiven of those already baptized. Others felt anyone who did anything to avoid martyrdom were apostates had no valid subsequent ministry.

He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.

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

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

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

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?' saith the Apostle; 'it is God that justifieth,' and it is their being elect that carries it. Yea, his love is so strong that if there be any accusation,—the Apostle makes the supposition, 'Who shall lay anything to their charge?' Sin or devil? —that if at any time sin or devil come to accuse, it moves God to bless. His love is so violent, it is so set, that he takes occasion to bless so much the more.

Oh! virtue knows no hopeless grief, 'Tis sin that must despair; The true believer finds relief In solitary pray'r.

Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

What is got over the Devil's back (that's by knavery), is spent under the belly (that's by lechery).