Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
— Henri Nouwen
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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is…
— Anne Bronte
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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
— Leo Tolstoy
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A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
— Raymond Chandler
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But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I…
— Saul Bellow
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The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence…
— Brennan Manning
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Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood…
— Brennan Manning
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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film,…
— Brennan Manning
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The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show…
— Brennan Manning
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
— Ernest Hemingway
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Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot…
— William Faulkner
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To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of…
— Noam Chomsky
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The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.
— Joe Hill
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There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or…
— Stephen King
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Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that…
— Giacomo Casanova
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And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to…
— Eric Ludy
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My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.
— Charles Spurgeon
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UG staff is patching up wargs, and all surviving Guardians are tied up," Wraith said, "But they could probably use some medical attention. Especially the…
— Larissa Ione
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