Sin Quotes · Page 77

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

— Charles Spurgeon

“She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.”

— John Steinbeck

First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

— Thomas Watson

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

— Benjamin Whichcote

The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.

— Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.

— John Bosco

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

— Anonymous

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“You don’t make peace only with God. You make it with people. Sin isn’t global. It’s personal. If you do wrong to…

— Jodi Picoult

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

— Charles Spurgeon

Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will…

— Andy Murray

[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost?…

— Anne Sexton

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of…

— James Bryce

“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me!…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Because of Jesus Christ the world has changed, the divine Atonement has been made, the price of sin has been paid, and…

— Thomas S. Monson

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and…

— Rodney Stark

Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but…

— Pythagoras

I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin... I appreciate the blessed fact of…

— Watchman Nee

The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“none of sin makes you better, sin always makes you get worse”

— Tolop Marbun

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

— Christopher Hitchens

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

— William Shakespeare

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

— Mardy Grothe

“When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

— Thomas Huxley

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

— Jim Caviezel

The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.

— Humphry Davy

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

— Suzi Quatro

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

— Abraham Cowley

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

— J. C. Ryle

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

— George Eliot

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

— Louie Giglio

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

— William E. Gladstone

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

— Phillips Brooks

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

— Eberhard Bethge