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Quotes About Sin

Amoebas cannot sin because they reproduce by fission. They do not covet wives or murder each other.
~ Ray Bradbury
Trick, yes, trick.' The boys were catching fire with the idea. It made all the good glue go out of their joints and put a little dust of sin in their blood. They felt it stir around until it pumped on up to light their eyes and stretch their lips to show their happy-dog teeth. 'Yeah, sure
~ Ray Bradbury
Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin.
~ Ray Bradbury
Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner.
~ Ray Bradbury
And still, strangely, they were not past the carnecería. The vision of red horror was on their left as they paced steadily forward on the hot tile sidewalk. The things that hung from hooks looked like brutalities and sins, like bad consciences, evil dreams, like gored flags and slaughtered promises. The redness, oh, the hanging, evil-smelling wetness and redness, the hooked and hung-high carcasses, unfamiliar, unfamiliar.
~ Ray Bradbury
if you're a miserable sinner in one shape, you're a miserable sinner in another.
~ Ray Bradbury
We salt our lives with other people's sins.
~ Ray Bradbury
Now, look, since when did you think being good meant being happy?" "Since always." "Since now learn otherwise. Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun and he's guilty. And men do love sin
~ Ray Bradbury
What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your shame and sin shall be published? Can you stand against an angry Law in that day? A
~ Ray Comfort
I saw the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot lust...
~ Joseph Conrad
N-am smuls noi, oare, navigând laolalt? pe marea nemuritoare, un sens vieÈ›ilor noastre p?c?toase? Adio, fraÈ›ilor! AÈ›i fost niÈ™te mateloÈ›i destoinici. La fel de destoinici ca oricare dintre cei care-au izbit vreodat?, urlând, în pânzele zbuciumate ale arborelui mare; sau care, leg?nându-se pe vergi, invizibili în noapte, au r?spuns chiuind la chiotele furtunii.
~ Joseph Conrad
Most of us could still sleep decently if accused of any of the other six deadly sins; but to be accused of envy would be seriously distressing, so clearly does such an accusation go directly to character.
~ Joseph Epstein
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
~ Joseph Epstein
The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
His sanity is the antidote to the poison that courses through the sin-cankered plot of the play. Without his heroic struggle to make sense of the madness surrounding him, nothing would make sense at all. Everything would be madness
~ Joseph Pearce
Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and runs away.
~ Josephine Hart
And if someone resists the Holy Spirit's conviction of sin and refuses to accept Jesus' sacrifice as God's righteousness, how can he or she be forgiven? Without agreeing with the Holy Spirit regarding sin and Jesus' offering for sin, forgiveness can never be granted. Therefore it is the unforgivable sin.
~ Josh McDowell
If we reject the convicting agent of the Holy Spirit and keep on deliberately sinning we simply can't obtain forgiveness.
~ Josh McDowell
God is perfectly holy and without sin. And to be in relationship with sin would be in violation of his nature.
~ Josh McDowell
We know what our punishment is, but what was our sin?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Unlike other sins, however, despair is by tradition the sole sin that cannot be forgiven; it is the conviction that one is damned absolutely, thus a repudiation of the Christian Saviour and a challenge to God's infinite capacity for forgiveness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It was a time of sin. It was not a time of innocence. It was a time of physical disgust. For I remember well.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.
~ Joyce Meyer
I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.
~ Joyce Meyer