Quotes About Sin

Evil is done by the living.

That He is a faithful Father, merciful, loving and just. That He loved you so much He sent His only Son to the cross so that you could have salvation. That He is ready to forgive your sin and take you into His bosom as one of His children, if you'll only ask in the name of the risen Christ.

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Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing bad cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time — in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.

The kindest souls are ever Those who sin and suffer most, And who thoughtfully endeavor To forget whereof men boast.

Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.

I will not be cleansed of knowledge. Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it. And

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

He said that everything in this world, small or large, was created for a reason. Even the smallest mosquito that bites people and makes them itch. There is wisdom behind that itch, in that it can be a substitute for a corresponding irritation in Hell. He said that every trouble we land in comes from a sin which would not be forgiven without that trouble.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

Sin is the fate prepared by the individual when he disowns himself and makes of himself a mere object. Man does not fall into the sin of his fate, but into the fate of his sin.

Until Jesus died upon the cross and paid the price of man's sin, no human soul could enter heaven,

Someone has said that even the worst sinner spends more time doing things that are good and harmless than in doing things that are bad. In other words, there is some good even in the worst of us.

Temptations can come also from the deep-seated forces within us which we call passions, passions that often are rebellious and imperfectly controlled as a result of original sin. But from whatever source the temptation may come, we know that we can conquer it if we have the will to do so.

Centuries before Sigmund Freud published his Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the Jews had a saying: "In sleep, it is not the man who sins—but his dream.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Like Lucifer, he creates darkness as he descends.

It's an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.