Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements…
— Anna Godbersen
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It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an…
— Paul Brunton
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Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
— Anne Rice
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
— Anthony de Mello
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[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when…
— Nick Hornby
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Give me my sin again.
— William Shakespeare
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow…
— Oscar Wilde
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It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
— Robert Penn Warren
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After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin…
— Richelle Mead
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We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth of…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech…
— Anne Fortier
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I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could…
— Jacqueline Carey
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Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
— Don DeLillo
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[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity…
— Francis Chan
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In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
— Frederick Buechner
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The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.
— George R. R. Martin
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The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider…
— Rachel Caine
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