Quotes About Sin

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.