Sin Quotes · Page 39

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

— Walter Scott

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

— John Owen

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

— Christine Keeler

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

— Eugene O'Neill

“Lucifer was engraving Nate’s name on a cage right now.”

— Kelly Moran

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry…

— David McCullough

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like…

— Robert Jeffress

Sin goes in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays

— George Swinnock

These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

— Dante Alighieri

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

— Peter Kreeft

Sin within us, we are born. Clothes in shame, we mourn. My soul, choked in thorns. Is it all worth fighting for?

— Aly Johnson

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

— Spencer W. Kimball

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims…

— Mia Farrow

Gluttony is harder than it looks. It's listed as a sin, as something you give in to, when really it's a skill,…

— Tom Junod

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful…

— Rajneesh

This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future.…

— ElRay L. Christiansen

I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I…

— Griffith John

You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven…

— Max Lucado

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

— J. G. Holland

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

— Mark Driscoll

Calvary reveals the seriousness of our Sin and the vastness of God's grace

— Anonymous

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

— Alfred Korzybski

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

— Mae West

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

— Vance Havner

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

— Joseph Prince

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

— Blase J. Cupich

Christian, beware of thinking lightly of sin. Take heed in case you fall little by little.

— Charles Spurgeon

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

— Truman Capote

Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

— Jonathan Edward Caldwell

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

— William Gurnall

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

— Vladimir Lenin

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

— Richard Paul Evans