Forbidden Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forbidden Forbidden fruit Hurtful Sin
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people. — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image