Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go…
— Samuel Beckett
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Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton…
— Lori Wilde
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The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of…
— Galt Niederhoffer
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What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered…
— Frank Abagnale
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Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man…
— Shusaku Endo
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What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I…
— Rene Descartes
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You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.
— Leif Enger
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
— Raymond Chandler
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
— Ernest Hemingway
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How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.
— Alex Sanchez
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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate…
— Ellen Hopkins
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
— Brennan Manning
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We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
— Anthony Burgess
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Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your…
— Joss Whedon
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This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based…
— Bill Hicks
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