Sin Quotes

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. — Eric Hoffer
We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think… — Anthony Hopkins
We are punished by our sins, not for them. — Elbert Hubbard
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. — Kin Hubbard
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable… — Thomas Huxley
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but… — E. Stanley Jones
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but… — E. Stanley Jones
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. — James Joyce
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in… — Franz Kafka
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. — Alfred Korzybski
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. — William Law
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T.E. Lawrence
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. — Hugh Leonard
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they… — C.S. Lewis
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude… — Alphonsus Liguori
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they… — Walter Lippmann

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