Quotes About Sin

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;A brother's murder!

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:By that sin fell the angels.

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,No reckoning made, but sent to my accountWith all my imperfections on my head.

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved.

The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded flyDoes lecher in my sight.Let copulation thrive.

But if it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.

But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,Will sate itself in a celestial bed,And prey on garbage.

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Murder most foul, as in the best it is.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

O! what authority and show of truthCan cunning sin cover itself withal.

Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

There will never a time in eternity when, in sight of the Lamb on the throne, we will not be sorry for our sin and grateful to the Lamb.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

It teaches that man is an apostate creature, fallen from his original innocence, degraded in his nature, depraved in his thinking, prone toward evil, not good, and impacted by sin to the very core of his being.

When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.

The Bible specifically states that sin cannot be blamed on how God made us. "When tempted, no one should say 'God is tempting me' " (Jas. 1:13). God wants us to come to terms with our sin and embrace the solution He has provided that can save us from judgment.