Sin Quotes

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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows — William Shakespeare
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? — John Milton
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just. — Victor Hugo
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a… — Oscar Wilde
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the… — Oscar Wilde
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion… — Robert A. Heinlein
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin. — Jerry Bridges
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was… — Anne Sexton
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov
Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins. — Tim LaHaye
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. — Charles Spurgeon
She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was… — Holly Black
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications… — James Allen
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful. — Oscar Wilde
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt,… — Martin Amis
And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no… — C.S. Lewis
Lore? Tell me what Sin said about you being tortured wasn't true,' He didn't look at her as he moved toward the bathroom. 'It wasn't… — Larissa Ione
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.… — Andrew Murray
It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow"(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk." (sin) How do… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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