Sin Quotes · Page 43

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

— Marcus Aurelius

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

— R. C. Sproul

O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him

— Muhammad

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

— Johnny Hunt

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

— Tony Snow

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

— Saint John Chrysostom

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

— Honore de Balzac

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

— Desmond Tutu

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

— J. G. Holland

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They…

— Joyce Meyer

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation…

— Anthony the Great

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

— Ana Castillo

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,…

— William Shakespeare

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its…

— John Owen

“There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins…

— Christopher Bollen

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His…

— Charles Hodge

Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have…

— Bertrand Russell

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that…

— John Calvin

“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true…

— Frank Herbert

It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he…

— James Petigru Boyce

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

— Brennan Manning

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

— Germaine Greer

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

— Pope Leo X

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

— Oscar Wilde

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

— Timothy Keller

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

— Karl Barth

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

— Theodore Parker

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

— RuPaul

I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.

— Russell Johnson

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

— Martin Luther

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

— Brigham Young

“True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Eddie Izzard

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

— Desmond Harrington

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

— Vasily Grossman

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

— Gordon Clark