Quotes About Sin

Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?

How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting. But okay, let's just suppose it is a sin. Then isn't that between God and the people involved? Who are you to judge? [...] Time and again, Jesus' message was, 'How can you say, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when there is a log in your own?

There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.

Sometimes wickedness prevails.

We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening

Oh, the wickedness of man is very great, said Villefort, since it surpasses the goodness of God.

They ask of me only to weep repentance for a sin that does not concern me and I shall get in return an alien freedom I don't understand: to be drubbed in one thin, wounding water after another of their philosophy - and confidently they would hang their washing in the heavens.

Si has dejado de vivir para ti mismo y para el pecado, y has confiado en Jesucristo y Su obra para justificarte delante de Dios, entonces el Señor te ha dado el Espíritu Santo.

Too much attention to a particular sin or sins, and/or too little attention to communion with God (two things that often occur in tandem) inevitably shrivel the soul of a Christian.

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.' " "Old Testament?" "Yes, Jeremiah 4, verse 3." "So what does it mean to you?" "God has given us good resources; use them. Don't choose the thorny or sin-laden fields because those are not meant for His people.

Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?

not let sin control the way you live;* do not give in to sinful desires. 13Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 14Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God's grace.

Our sin does not make us useless, no matter how great it is. God is willing to forgive us, to use us, and to allow us to know his presence.

had loved Daddy too much and God had punished me for it. I knew then that it was a sin to love like that—so completely. If you did, you got robbed.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.

I, too, wanted to do penance for my own sins and for the sins of the whole world, for I had a keen sense of sin, of natural imperfection and earthliness.

evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

What, then, is his appraisal of your worth? He was willing to pay the price of his own Son's death on an executioner's cross to pay for your sin so you might have an intimate relationship with him. That's the value God places on you. If you truly see how precious and valuable a treasure you and your sexuality are to him, it will transform the way you allow others to treat you—"significant others" included.

I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'...