Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
— William Shakespeare
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says:…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the…
— Victor Hugo
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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you…
— Orson Scott Card
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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
— Ambrose Bierce
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
— Anatole France
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Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
— Jack Kerouac
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The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do."…
— Randy Alcorn
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes…
— Martin Luther
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Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are…
— Sharon Kay Penman
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It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
— Ayn Rand
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Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it;…
— William P. Young
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
— Aldous Huxley
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
— Dean Koontz
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People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the…
— D. A. Carson
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