Born Quote by Alice Walker

The only sin is the sin of being born

— Samuel Beckett

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

— Marcus Aurelius

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

— Thomas Aquinas

“The major sin is the sin of being born.”

— Samuel Butler

“Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

— Stephen Charnock

“All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

— Jacob Needleman

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

— Timothy Keller

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

— Randy Alcorn

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

Pleasure is the bait of sin

— Plato