Sin Quotes · Page 57

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

— Mark Lawrence

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

— John Fletcher

“The Saviour, sacrifice his life as offering for sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

— Billy Graham

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

— Simone Weil

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

— John Bunyan

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

— Franz Kafka

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

— J. I. Packer

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made…

— John Bunyan

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the…

— Dwight L. Moody

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it…

— Henri Nouwen

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't…

— Cary Fukunaga

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

— Adolf Hitler

“The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires.…

— David Platt

A mistake is something that you did thinking it was right but it was wrong. A sin is something that you know…

— Anwar al-Awlaki

The biblical way to express God’s love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law—see…

— Anonymous

In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin,…

— John Bunyan

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long…

— Frederick Buechner

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth…

— Henry David Thoreau

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view…

— Walpola Rahula

This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer…

— Martin Luther

God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again.…

— Anthony de Mello

We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one…

— Pope Boniface VIII

I'm a reject, a failure, a sinner at large. I'm not a winner or anyone's medal or up on a pedestal. These…

— Desmond Fouche

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

— Jean de La Fontaine

“If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.”

— Toba Beta

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride

— Jonathan Aitken

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

— Horace

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

— George Whitefield

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

— Henry Miller

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

— Michelle Bachelet

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

— Kevin DeYoung

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

— John Owen

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

— John Bunyan

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

— Russell Banks

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

— Thomas Brooks

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

— William Shakespeare

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

— Mark Hart

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

— Aeschylus