Sin Quotes · Page 41

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

— Joseph Parker

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

— Samuel Richardson

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

— Oscar Wilde

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

— William Shakespeare

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

— Orville Dewey

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

— Anonymous

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

— John Stott

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

— William P. Young

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult…

— Thomas a Kempis

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

— Paul David Tripp

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of…

— Richard Stallman

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks…

— Prudentius

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs…

— John Calvin

Tucker Carlson is guilty of the sin of saying bad things a long time ago, and for that a bunch of people…

— Mary Katharine Ham

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of…

— Ellen G. White

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin,…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying…

— Christian Hosoi

Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to…

— Horatius Bonar

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do…

— Thomas Hardy

“Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is…

— Fulton J. Sheen

What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from…

— Charles Spurgeon

Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where…

— John Piper

As Paul says, even though we as human beings know God, we refuse to acknowledge him. That's what Peter did. He refused…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns…

— Allan Bloom

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

— Hannah More

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

— Mark Twain

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

— Ovid

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Do not emphasise sin more than forgiveness or justice more than mercy.”

— Brother Pedro

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

— Scott Hahn

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

— John Densmore

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

— Joe Hill

“I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows”

— john j geddes

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

— Joseph Addison

It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart.

— Richard Sibbes

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

— Judah Smith

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

— Terry Goodkind

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

— Theodore Roosevelt

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

— Dwight L. Moody