Quotes About Sin

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see that whold and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guild, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. - Mata Hari

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

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There is not a verse in the Bible, however, that presents Calvinism's radical idea that the sinner is incapable of believing the very gospel that offers him forgiveness and salvation, and yet he is condemned by God for failing to believe. In fact, as we shall see, the Bible declares otherwise. "All men everywhere" (Acts 17: 30) are repeatedly called upon to repent and to believe on Christ.

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Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there's no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?

If our Gods really loved us, they'd want our lives filled with joy," she continued relentlessly. "But you hate joy for some reason—probably because you're afraid of it. Joy is not sin, Relg; joy is a kind of love, and I think the Gods approve of it— even if you don't.

naïveté is the last true terrible sin in the theology of millennial America.

As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.

A little water clears us of this deed.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

By that sin fell the angels.