Sin Quotations | Page 3

Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.

Sin leads to sure and certain downfall and hence we should abstain from sinful deeds.

Mr. Bush, tolerance of wickedness and sin is no family value.

O Nanak, those who do not walk in the ways of sin, shall be exalted in the world hereafter.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Free from desires, mind and senses under control, renouncing all proprietorship, doing mere bodily action, one does not incur sin (or Karmic reaction).

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more inclined to than others, according to his constitution.

For the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

But at the same time I don't believe I am a credited speaker when it comes to speaking on religion because I still sin like everyone else and there are many people more qualified than I am so I rather them talk and I listen and learn.

If the slavery in which we hold the blacks is wrong, it is a very great and public sin, and, therefore, a sin which God is now testifying against in the calamities he has brought upon us; consequently, must be reformed before we can reasonably expect deliverance, or even sincerely to ask for it.

He was tremendously against that, absolutely sincere: 'You should not go to these places. It's wrong if you go to the places. It's a sin if you go to the places,'

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

He has only forbidden you what dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and that over which any other (name) than (that of) Allah has been invoked; but whoever is driven to necessity, not desiring, nor exceeding the limit, no sin shall be upon him; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

Living a Life in Sin Sucks! It Sucks the Life Out of You!

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, ""John A. Joyce.""The bard who would prosper must carry a book, Do his thinking in prose and wear A crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair. Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat; If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

It is considered a grave sin to die a debtor.

It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.

Our unwillingness to do a deal is keeping the spotlight on this original sin.

It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen,

Though they, blinded by greed, do not see evil in the destruction of the family, or sin in being treacherous to friends.

When it comes to their eating habits, consumers will continue to choose the proverbial sin over salvation -- or fat and sugar -- over the lack of it.

Who hath sorrow? Who hath woe?/ They who do not answer no;/ They whose feet to sin incline/ While they tarry at the wine.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

It is a sin to be poor.

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.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit, and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe...

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Sin is in, and so we begin...

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.

We beat North Allegheny and our biggest sin is that we played a tough schedule. This year I don't think it matters what the numbers are because it's wide open and a lot of teams have been upset this year and you don't know what will happen.

The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.