Sin Quotations | Page 5

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called Sin City is allowed to be a drunk.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost/ Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.

Every fall makes a dent; every fault has to be corrected; and every sin has to be cleansed. Everyone is a prisoner.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

At the moment at which I admitted my sin and asked for God's forgiveness, He gave me the deepest level of understanding of mercy that I could ever have imagined.

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the publisher

The seeds of sin and virtue are bound together.

The self-service stores are creating an environment that allows the consumer to be able to get better fashion. It's no longer about getting fashion in a department store. Another interesting thing that's going on is the price points have become more extreme. You remove the sin in buying.

When you drink, you get drunk. when you get drunk, you fall asleep, when you sleep, you surely can commit no sin. when you dont sin you go to heaven. so lets all get drunk and go to heaven.

And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently ""glened"" as soon as its occupant is done ""smellynge,"" the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.

The original sin appeared only when man accepted defeat, denying his own Self in favor of the outside one of the world to which he belongs and thus fragmenting the image on his own Destiny, which is composed of the outside world and the Sacred Self in the inside.

When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight

Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

Alas! though I know in theory what a Christian should be--I am still sadly deficient in practice! I am a poor creature, and see much to be ashamed of every day, and in every circumstance. Yet, though sin will distress--it cannot condemn, those who believe in Jesus!

Alas! We are ready to commit a great sin by striving to slay our kinsmen because of greed for the pleasures of the kingdom.

Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.

Satan is a slick character. To me, he's actually very appealing. He's not scary. That's kind of how sin is because it looks appealing and it looks harmless, but the consequences are there. It's a very powerful scene. There are even some demons and sufferers.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind

Even if one is the most sinful of all sinners, yet one shall cross over the ocean of sin by the raft of knowledge alone.

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

This is not a mistake. It was the explicit intent of Congress to expand coverage to working families. The original sin of social policy was tying Medicaid directly to welfare. Now, it's tied to working.

In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, ... The first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second; now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.

If sin and vice become disqualifying factors for university employees, then students might have to start teaching themselves.

I'm young and healthy, and you've got charms; It would really be a sin not to have you in my arms; I'm young and healthy, and so are you; When the moon is in the sky, tell me what am I to do? If I could hate you, I'd keep away; But that ain't my nat

I like his chances down the road. When that will happen, I don't think any of us will need to answer. We'll just all observe and let the player tell us if the time is right. If the time is not right, it's no sin for him to be pitching down in the minor leagues.

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.

In this Western point of view, evil and sin were negative qualities; they arose from the absence of good, not from the presence of evil.

No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him

Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, / And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; / For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man / Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!

Everyone has a fault, sin, you have one too; you just didn't find it yet.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

The mere fact that someone says, 'we're optimistic' and then a month later the stock price goes down doesn't mean that people have tried to mislead anybody else, ... If you purport to tell people what you know about the future but you mislead them by leaving important things out, that can well be the sin of omission. But you have to look at what, precisely, people say and what, precisely, is left out.

I'm very lustful. I'm in this fortunate, or unfortunate, position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So it can get hard on tour. I don't think lust is a sin - people should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then they'd be less uptight.

In a cold lunar New Year's Day in China in 2000, my little brother left our underground hut to beg food in a Chinese village. He returned with tears in his eyes but no food in his hands. If you experience things like that, you get to hate people and want to take revenge, like Sin in the movie.

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin

His biggest sin was to trust a producer whom he'd worked with very successfully in the past,

I really think it is a sin to have a collection sitting in boxes that nobody ever sees. These works were made for display, for human communication. To be sitting wrapped up neatly for me to make a profit on them is wrong.

But he who is without sin can cast the first stone. We are all sinners and I know my daughter wasn't perfect. I will never know what happened.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...

Holy must be the man who treads - the incensed shrine within: and holy is that man alone - whose soul is free from sin

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.