Sin Quotes

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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a… — Karl Popper
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's… — Geoffrey Fisher
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt… — Joel Osteen
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy
The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history ...… — Herbert Butterfield
Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,… — Martin Luther
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences… — Johan Oscar Smith
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul… — Toni Morrison
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. — Charles W. Chesnutt
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. — Rajneesh
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. — Seneca the Younger
Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins. — Aisha bint Abi Bakr
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of… — Umar
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse. — Umar
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins. — Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the adversity is not… — Umar
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
Dying is not a sin. Not living is. — Jack Lemmon
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,… — Marva Dawn

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