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Quotes About Sin

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
~ Anne Baxter
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
~ Terry Pratchett
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
~ Tony Snow
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
~ Pope John Paul II
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
~ R. A. Torrey
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
~ David Hare
And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
~ Guillermo del Toro
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.
~ Alistair Begg
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.
~ Isidore of Seville
To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.
~ Cornelius Plantinga
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!
~ Jeaniene Frost
It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.
~ Max Lucado
During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.
~ Theda Bara