Quotes About Sin

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

With God's help, I started to not only identify sin but also say no to it.

That is who you are. God said so. You may fear you have screwed everything up, but the depth of your sin is not greater than God's power to forgive.

Psalm 119:9–12: "How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Praise be to you, O Lord; teach me your decrees.

Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best.     "Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning, 1885

Jesus died for his own sins, not mine.

The man was unusual. He'd committed a truly fatal sin while in the bank with her. He'd made her curious. Few things could penetrate the veil that seemed to surround her. Chloe had always known she was different from other people. She didn't respond to things the way others did. She didn't laugh often. She didn't feel the rush of emotions that others seemed to enjoy so easily. Most days, she felt as if nothing at all touched her. Today, Joel Landry had touched her.

He had a really fucking good time as he did his very, very bad things.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.

Don't mind that. That's just people burning in Hell.

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

None of us don't have a vice.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.

'Victoria Para Chino,' my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to 'Sin Nombre.'

In Jack's view, you were obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning.