Sin Quotes · Page 72

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

— Swami Vivekananda

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

— Brent Weeks

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

— J. Vernon McGee

All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

— Johnny Hunt

If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

— George MacDonald

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

— Mark Driscoll

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

— David Platt

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history -…

— Walter Martin

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

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

There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And…

— Meghan Daum

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in…

— Thomas Paine

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods,…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so…

— Thomas Watson

“They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think…

— Mike Carey

“Brethren, be mindful of the truth that the deliberate act of sinning, will eventually take us to the point of no return…

— Royal Raj S

“You think you’re annoyed because of Plikt’s arrogance, but that isn’t so. Plikt is not arrogant; she is merely precise. You are…

— Orson Scott Card

I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten…

— Woody Allen

Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the…

— John Owen

When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and…

— Richard Baxter

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

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision…

— Ken Blanchard

He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it.

— John Owen

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

— Jerry Bridges

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

— Thomas Brooks

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

— E. B. Farnum

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

— Henry B. Eyring

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The Saviour, sacrifice his life as offering for sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

— Billy Graham

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

— Simone Weil

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

— John Bunyan

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

— Franz Kafka

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

— J. I. Packer

It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.

— Samuel Marsden

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

— Thomas Campbell

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

— Hilary Mantel