Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us — Bible Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven. But life won't let me forget.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as,… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings… — n.t. Wright Copy Share Image
There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. — Desmond Harrington Copy Share Image
We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty — Gordon Clark Copy Share Image
At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image