Quotes About Sin

In every sinner, Gertie, is the possibility of a saint.

I sat on the steps of my father's church thinking how much I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The delicious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The de licious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.

Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.

Todo el bien proviene en ultima instancia de Dios, mientras que el mal se deriva del mal uso de la libertad por parte de las criaturas

Redemption, this alone delivers from the Guilt and Power of Sin, this alone redeems, renews, and regains the first Life of God in the Soul of Man. Every Thing besides this, is Self, is Fiction, is Propriety, is own Will, and however coloured, is only thy old Man, with all his Deeds. Enter therefore with all thy Heart into this Truth, let thy Eye be always upon it, do every Thing in View of it, try every Thing by the Truth of it, love Nothing but for the Sake of it.

Hence also the Fall of Adam was said to be a Death, that he died the Day of his Sin, though he lived so many hundred Years after it: it was because his Sin broke the Union of his two-fold Life and put an End to the heavenly Part of it, and left only one Life, the Life of this bestial, earthly World in him.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

The law told people what to do but gave them no power to do it. It was given to reveal sin, not to be a savior.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

No poor creature stands in need of divine grace more than I, and none abuse it more than I have done, and still do.

Oh, how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness when, if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

It is of inestimable importance that the classical and biblical traditions linked slavery with original sin, punishment <...>, the later abolition of slavery became tied with personal and collective freedom, with the redemption from sin, with the romanticizing of many form of labor, and with the ultimate salvation of humankind.

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tires to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice" altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.