Quotes About Sin

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins."

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...