Quotes About Sin

Dig in the pope's pocket for the bullet, the brown glass vial with the magic top. Snort. Taste chemicals running down the back of your throat. Snort again.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

It takes a man to know men and all the wickedness mixed up in their flesh and blood.

The wall between the men's and women's rooms was built like a fortress, and solid bars covered the windows—they'd been put there by the proprietors to protect the girls' honour. Instead they'd served as a death sentence. Isn't that always the way, Mrs. Fisher had thought, man's fears causing him to do things that lead to far greater sins.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

that they cared for would not be hurt, it was nowhere to be found, and the wounds were as fresh and as red as they had been when both of them had been brand-new and had no sins in the world to stain them.

Jeremiah and Jesus indicted people then, and now. The ancient Temple, and the present-day church, should be places where people not only find community, welcome the stranger, and repent of their sins. They should be places where people promise to live a godly life, and then keep their promises.

we should resist the tendency, which is part of the rhetoric of the Gospels and their reception, to associate disability with sin.

For Jews, Jesus is unnecessary or a redundancy; he is not needed to save from sin or from death, since Judaism proclaims a deity ready to forgive repentant sinners and since it asserts that "all Israel has a share in the world to come" (Mishnah Sanhedrin 10:1).

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness".

A religião prestou ao amor um grande serviço, fazendo dele um pecado.

sin el Infierno y el Purgatorio nadie se preocuparía de Dios.

It was redeemed from sin by Niepce and Lumière. In achieving the aims of baroque art, photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Popii zic c? omul e osândit pentru p?catele sale, îl paÈ™te iadul, focul veÈ™nic. Dar adev?rata pedeaps? nu-i asta... ci dispariÈ›ia femeii iubite... cum s? spun? Da, cea care dispare în femeia care continua s? tr?iasc? cu tine...

I do not believe," whispered Father Sunder, "in any God that considers love to be a sin.

Ne verujem, prošaptao je otac Zunder, u onog boga koji misli da je ljubav greh.

Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.