Quotes About Sin

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.

Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness.

He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living

If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more desired than life itself.

People can change. A doubter can still believe. Evil can still turnover to good. A sinner can still repent. People can change. Change won't change itself. You on your own have to choose to evolve. Not the person who sees you as fit. People can change. But change can only do so much. It will never be you, it will never define you, it will never truly change you. People can change. And change you shall. But underneath all that skin, you are still you. Even though you've changed.

every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

For, according to Françoise's code, as it is illustrated in the carvings of Saint-André-des-Champs, to wish for the death of an enemy, even to inflict it is not forbidden, but it is a horrible sin not to do what is expected of you, not to return a civility,

Penso che da giovani si combatte per sconfiggere i peccati capitali senza sapere che nell'età adulta non saranno le virtù a neutralizzarli, bensì i peccati stessi. Per esempio, a lungo andare la gola prende il sopravvento sulla vanità e l'ignavia sulla lussuria.

Qué le ha pasado al pecado? Ya no está incluido en el índice de temas importantes a tratar. Aparentemente ahora hay otras cuestiones más relevantes y más convenientes: prosperidad, estrategias de «iglecrecimiento», declaración positiva, autoestima, múltiples seminarios sobre diversos temas, pero poco acerca de la santidad y de vivir apartado del pecado.