when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it. — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“The advice to love yourself may sound beautiful to the ear, but it was the only sin committed by the first narcissist.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, “She must be suffering because of some sin she committed”; Jesus, who… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Why should the private pleasure of some one Become the public plague of many moe? Let sin, alone committed, light alone Upon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The sin I have committed is the sin of adoption. I have adopted a different set of beliefs from the beliefs I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“She thought she could see the lines on his forehead even in this darkness, she thought she could hear his heart beat… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
“cannot make yourself righteous by simply changing your behavior,’’ Mother replied. Essie stiffened. ‘‘I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.’’ ‘‘What… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
“Do you want in? Into the heart of God? Into His unending provisions, His boundless love, and His eternal mercy and grace?… — Rosemary Hines Copy Share Image
“He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
“The face that Moses had begged to see – was forbidden to see – was slapped bloody (Exodus 33:19-20) The thorns that… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“Leo wondered what unknown sin they must have committed in some previous life to deserve this. The answer came the same way… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
