Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own…
— Anthony Burgess
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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
— Iris Murdoch
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Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and…
— Neil Gaiman
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
— Edith Wharton
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To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration,…
— Brigham Young
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We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,†Say nothing but…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.
— Eddie Izzard
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Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt…
— Charles Frazier
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I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
— Patrick Henry
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
— Alfred de Musset
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Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
— William Shakespeare
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared…
— Rudyard Kipling
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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
— Agatha Christie
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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
— T.H. White
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Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness.…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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