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
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin. — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst… — John Owen Copy Share Image
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I'm advocating. Like everything else in Cross… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
