Sin Quotations | Page 2

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgement on anything.

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.

Never judge a person for one sin he has committed

Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world. The acts of God are what happens afterwards ... all the good that happens.

Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.

I didn't abuse her. I didn't commit any grievous sin. Is divorce a sin above all others?

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

There are low views of God's holiness, and a ceasing to condemn sin in the flesh, and a looking from him who humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation.

Envy is a deadly sin!

Let them fear death who do not fear sin

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. We're both role models who have made different choices. I don't know why we're even talking about it. It's a private matter. It has nothing to do with basketball.

Sin disabled man to keep God's law, but it doth not enfranchise or disoblige him that he need not keep it

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages

Sin is a stone which does not float.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.