Quotes About Sin

Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

I thought speakers didn't believe in sin, said a sullen boy. Andrew smiled. You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.

The pride of universal guilt. It's a form of vanity and egomania. She holds herself responsible for things that could not possibly be her fault. As if she controlled everything, as if other people's suffering came about as punishment for her sins.

He was scum, and so it was all right that they treated him like scum.' 'And you think he wasn't?' 'No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Sin makes our armor vulnerable to attack from Satan, who then gains permission from God to attack us in the area where we have failed to uphold righteousness. If we break down in moral purity, Satan comes in and establishes a stronghold. If we give place to bitterness and unwillingness to forgive, we break fellowship with God and others. If we become money-focused, we fall into greed and deception. Sin is a vicious cycle that leaves us weak and vulnerable to ever more sin.

I can resist anything except temptation.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place

le mauvais goût mène au crime (Thaddeus Sholto)

Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.

If there was a heaven, was it nor founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?

If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?

Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.

Shoo, said the old man. I wouldn't turn Satan away for a drink.