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Quotes About Sin

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
~ Unknown
There is little that Satan hates more than godly repentance.
~ Unknown
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Er zijn noodzakelijke en minder noodzakelijke zonden.
~ Unknown
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere
~ Margaret Weis
When Uncle Hubert spoke of a fellow human being as poor, he meant to convey that either by accident or intention they had done something wrong.
~ Margery Allingham
some men warm themselves at others' sins.
~ Maria McCann
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their home.
~ Maria Shriver
And the Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?…Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."(Genesis 18:17, 20–21)
~ Marilyn Hickey
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
~ Marilyn Manson
Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.
~ John Connolly, The Infernals
If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]
~ Edward T. Welch
When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!
~ Unknown
Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.
~ Rihanna
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
~ John Updike
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
~ Unknown
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
~ John Milton
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
~ Al-Shafi'i
Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
~ John Bunyan
Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.
~ T. B. Joshua
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
~ Karl Barth
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
~ John Calvin