Quotes About Sin

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his path And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart May the Lord Christ enter in?

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety.

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Between you and him there are chasms. He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us.

better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. there was purification in punishment

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.

Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. 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.

Lo único que realmente demuestra es que nuestro futuro será igual a nuestro pasado, y que el pecado que hemos cometido una vez, y con amargura, lo repetiremos muchas veces, y con alegría.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of Time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience. When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.

Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.