Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1784 authors
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Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take…
— Dwight L. Moody
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The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth,…
— Dwight L. Moody
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My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ,…
— Dwight L. Moody
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A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse with a woman,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
— Honore de Balzac
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal'…
— E. M. Forster
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God…
— C.S. Lewis
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The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false;…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was…
— John Dryden
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
— John Dryden
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get…
— Donald Miller
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By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of…
— Gabriel Fackre
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Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.
— William Allingham
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people,…
— Grover Cleveland
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to…
— Pope Francis
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I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining…
— John Keats
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But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a…
— George Steiner
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