Crime Quote by Anton Szandor LaVey

“While guilt over sinfulness can often lead to repentance, shame leads to indifference, intolerance, lack of vulnerability, and lack of intimacy with others as…

— Tyler Braun

“Berating ourselves for our flaws and our weakness only serves to undermine our strength to become. Repenting from our sin is essential. Beating ourselves…

— Stasi Eldredge

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It…

— William Penn

“We shouldn't enable ourselves or others to bad behavior, but should always encourage for good. Our attitude toward sin is a reflection of our…

— Michael Brent Jones

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

— Desmond Tutu

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of…

— Peter Kreeft

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

— Joseph Campbell

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

— Jean Racine

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength…

— Oscar Wilde

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.

— Ellen G. White

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

— Franz Kafka