Quotes About Sin

It hardly can be called a sin, If something's funny and you grin! …

The first time [Christ] came to slay sin in men. The second time He will come to slay men in sin.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

Why does forgiveness irritate me so much? I ask Chuck. Because it's the ultimate act of passive aggression, he says. Because it keeps sin alive, says my sister.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

the Son's, love is greater than the sum of the world's sin and how the Father cannot resist this love and lets love reign at the judgment in place of ordinary justice.

Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

The wicked always finds an excuse for wrongdoing.

Lust drives the chariot of the yetzer hara; the seat on which it sits is pride.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have turned out differently.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

We're saints and sinners both, the lot of us, or else there's no saints and no sinners.

The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.

They were silent till the man passed, and then Kumalo said, in all my days I have known no one as you are. And Msimangu said sharply, I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.

The only reason why we are always having the doctrine of original sin instilled into us, in one form or another, is that the artificial conditions of the super-tribe keep on working against our biological altruism, and it needs all the help it can get.

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

I am a garden of earthly delights. I am the apple you would fall for a thousand times.

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

Contrary to popular evangelical belief, feeling anger is not a sin—you're allowed to feel angry. You should feel angry. Being outraged at mistreatment is normal and even good. How