Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked…

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil…

— Venerable Bede

“The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the Scripture.”

— Elyse Fitzpatrick

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

— Benedict Joseph Labre

“We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's…

— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

— Anonymous

Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.

— Judah the Prince

Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes,…

— Eric Metaxas

“The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one's…

— Criss Jami

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

— Flannery O'Connor

“You cannot avoid sin or mistake anyway (Romans 5:12), but if you try too fervently, it often creates even worse problems.”

— Richard Rohr

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

— H. L. Mencken

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

— Anonymous

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

— Juvenal

“The root of all sin is fear: the very deep fear that we are nothing; the compulsion, therefore, to make something of ourselves, to…

— Norman Wirzba

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

— Alphonsus Liguori