Sin Quotes

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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness... — Abraham Lincoln
The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them… — Benjamin Rush
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this… — William E. Gladstone
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… — George Bernard Shaw
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then… — William Shakespeare
Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin. — Oprah Winfrey
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin,… — Saint Augustine
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine… — Elizabeth Janeway
Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my… — George Washington
I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. — Samuel Adams
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating… — Thomas Paine
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems… — Aimee Semple McPherson
Sadness is a state of sin. — Andre Gide
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where… — Tryon Edwards
Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping… — Phil Robertson

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