Quotes About Sins

My mother used to say that the only regrets in our old age are the sins we didn't commit and the things we didn't buy.

I think you'll see that my life story is worthy of a novel, because of my sins more than my virtues.

Trueba continued polishing his reputation as a rake, sowing the entire region with his bastard offspring, reaping hatred, and storing up sins that barely nicked him because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress.

La curiosidad es la madre de todos los pecados, pero también de todas las ciencias.

All you regret in the end are the sins you didn't commit.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tiding, Yes, the Lord has risen today.

Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!

Remission is a word that signifies absolution. As Google will guess if you begin typing it, the term "remission of cancer" derives from and echoes "the remission of sins.

I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

If we know for certain that God sees all we do and all we are, we will not be tempted ask others to validate us by displaying our virtues, nor will we tempt others to judge us by displaying our sins. Only God can validate us; only God can judge.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. Most of what it has to offer is discomforting, even disruptive—which is why it is not always politically prudent to wield the past as a moral cudgel with which to beat and berate a people for its past sins.

Generational sins, hereditary diseases and systemic poverty are not a part of our royal status. Yet in reality, trespassing demonic spirits oftentimes stymie the full benefits of our inheritance.

The superior types, he points out, are also sinners. Of course, they are nice church members. They don't let all their dirty laundry hang out. No, their sins are vegetarian sins. Compared with the really nasty people, they appear good in their own eyes.

The Valyrians were more than dragonlords. They practiced blood magic and other dark arts as well, delving deep into the earth for secrets best left buried and twisting the flesh of beasts and men to fashion monstrous and unnatural chimeras. For there sins the gods in their wroth struck them down. Valyria is accursed, all men agree, and even the boldest sailor steers well clear of its smoking bones... but we would be mistaken to believe that nothing lives there now.

These are demons in the skins of wolves, sent to chastise us for our sins." "This must have been an uncommonly sinful horse," Jaime said,

First of all, there is a difference between redemption and restoration. What you're talking about is restoration, putting things back as they were before. That is not what redemption is. Christ is the Redeemer because he paid the price for our sins, Joshua. In his sacrifice he took the pain of our sins upon him, he took the effects of our transgressions upon himself.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.

So many laws argue so many sins.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.

Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?