A vow is a snare for sin

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

— Mark Sanford

We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but…

— John Newton

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

— Hermann Hesse

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

— John Webster

“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside…

— Flann O'Brien

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

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot.…

— Meister Eckhart

“My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of finding a…

— Richard J. O'Brien

We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of

— Mark Driscoll

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm…

— Ellen Hopkins

The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost…

— Robert Southey

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a…

— Dabo Swinney

I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present…

— Rachel Held Evans