Sin Quotes · Page 36

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

— Paddy Ashdown

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

— Ian Fleming

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a sinner…who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

— Kendrick Lamar

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

— Rabbi Ishmael

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

— Horace Mann

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

— Charles Spurgeon

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is…

— T. S. Eliot

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

— Raymond Smullyan

Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will…

— Andy Murray

I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost?…

— Anne Sexton

He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly…

— Anonymous

“Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off…

— Joe Thorn

“But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as…

— W. Somerset Maugham

We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it…

— Oswald Chambers

“On July 30, 1723, when he was nineteen years old, Edwards wrote in his diary, “I have concluded to endeavor to work…

— John Piper

But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the…

— Chris Kyle

As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.…

— J. Budziszewski

There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp.…

— Abu Bakr

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

— Tom Waits

“It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

— Oswald Chambers

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

— Frank Ocean

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

— Lancelot Andrewes

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

— Euripides

“Grace is the promise that your heavenly Father remembers your sins no more.”

— R.J. Grunewald

“I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that’s where my desire for you is sending me”

— johnj geddes

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

— Max Lucado

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

— George Bernard Shaw

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

— Rohit Shetty

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

— Mary Baker Eddy

The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

— Donald J. Carty

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

— Henry David Thoreau

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

— Edith Head

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

— Stanley Hauerwas