More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“If you believe [in God], your belief will kill your sinning, or else your sinning will kill your believing!” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I'm going to Hell in a basket Weaved in from my sins, Like wicker With little Wiccan ties As if I'm a… — Matthew Little Copy Share Image
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“right now I was enjoying my youth and was not going to be a hypocrite and live one way on a Sunday… — Sonovia Alexander Copy Share Image
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We can't make excuses in sinning, saying that it's human nature because God has made us in His image. He made us… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness,… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world… — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Hot chocolate should be sinful, and I don't believe in sinning in half measures.” — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God’s mercy is not great enough? . . .” — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying? — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Nature, as we know her, is no saint… She comes eating and drinking and sinning. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again.” — J.B. McGee Copy Share Image
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Stop sinning—you mean stop being gay? That’s like asking you to stop being straight, and that’s where the whole biblical argument falls… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
“no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or… — C.M. Owens Copy Share Image