Sin Quotes · Page 44

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

— Phoebe Snow

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.

— John Gerstner

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

— Dwight L. Moody

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

— Elvis Costello

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

— Gail Godwin

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

— William Shakespeare

“This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.”

— R.W. Schmidt

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self,…

— Henry Blackaby

“Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg…

— Elizabeth Enright

“Jesus Christ. This is what sin feels like," he rasped. "Wrong and right, at the same time. Life and death. Blond, long-legged,…

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Charles Spurgeon

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because…

— Alistair Begg

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured…

— Pope Benedict XVI

To judge sins is the business of one who is sinless, but who is sinless except God? Who ever thinks about the…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God. He is…

— Horatius Bonar

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds…

— Charles Spurgeon

Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If…

— John R. Rice

“Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,…

— Joshua L. Liebman

“From the Fatwa and Rationalizatons Committee, on the Fifth Day of this Venerable Month: In light of its meeting today, the Committee…

— Basma Abdel Aziz

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

— Kevin Smith

“The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.”

— Criss Jami

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

— Salvador de Madariaga

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Judith Martin

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

— Ray Comfort

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

— Augustus Hopkins Strong

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

— Ted Turner

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Curiosity is not a sin… But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

— Anonymous

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

— Douglas Hurd

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

— John Dryden

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

— Florence King