Sin Quotes · Page 76

“If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.”

— Toba Beta

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride

— Jonathan Aitken

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

— Horace

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

— George Whitefield

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

— Henry Miller

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

— Michelle Bachelet

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

— Kevin DeYoung

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

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

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

— Aly Johnson

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

— Peter Kreeft

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence,…

— John Owen

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

— Spencer W. Kimball

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

— Raymond Smullyan

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

Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.…

— Rob Bell

The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most…

— Charles Spurgeon

Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us…

— Timothy Keller

And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was…

— George Carlin

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it…

— Philippa Gregory

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On…

— Franz Kafka

Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes.…

— Lawrence E. Corbridge

We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

— John Owen

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

— John Bunyan

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us

— Bible

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

— Sydney Biddle Barrows

“Self surrender is the grace of salvation from sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I live my life and make mistakes and sin every single day... but that's what grace is for.

— Hannah Brown

“Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.”

— Anthony Burgess

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

— Joanne Greenberg

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

— Benjamin Franklin

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

— Anonymous

Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.

— Tiny Tim

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him

— Boonaa Mohammed

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

— John Hagee

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

— Charles Spurgeon