Quotes About Sin

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People.

Sin is rarely without complication

Father, forgive me—for I know precisely what I'm doing.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Cain: Then my father's God did well When he prohibited the fatal tree. Lucifer: But had done better in not planting it. But ignorance of evil doth not save From evil: it must still roll on the same, A part of all things.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry (Ephesians 4:26).

You want a crime to torture yourself for, try cowardice . The only sin that ever mattered a shit is the shame that put us all here. Fuck, I didn't give you that power just so you could judge yourselves . I gave you the power so you could judge God .

Dere må kjenne deres fiender! Dere skal være klar over at Synden er den farligste fienden! Og dere må aldri be Synden hjem til dere! Be aldri Synden på middag! IKKE ENGANG SPANDER EN KOPP KAFFE PÅ SYNDEN?!»

And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

I wouldn't know where pure emotion, a crush as you say, stops and sex begins. Does anyone know? When does a feeling become a sin? When the body performs what is already formed in the mind? Tell me that, Red?

Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I am utterly alone with myself, I see clearly that from now on I shall always be utterly alone with myself. I am somewhere where neither love nor friendship can reach, I am in hell … I have sinned for a brief while and I am being punished for it, incredibly severely, for a long time! But one should have known, before one sinned, how severe the punishment would be. One should have been warned beforehand, then one would not have sinned …

For Judaism, sin is a deed, not a condition.

I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.

He'll go to torment, and no mistake," said little Jake.

Lor, if the devil don't get them, what's he good for?

He was not yet in the Church, but already a sin without a name had occurred to him. Ordinarily, the thought might give him pleasure. He remembered Nunes saying that a man must come into the Church on his own intellectual level. And in a horror, remote but clear, saw that the more intelligent a man was, the more various the sins he was capable of committing.

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

Evil lies in the hearts of mankind!