Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1885 authors
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As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the…
— Thomas Brooks
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this…
— Alister E. McGrath
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I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is…
— Frederick Douglass
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Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.
— Piers Paul Read
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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
— Epicurus
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Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
— Muriel Spark
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It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite…
— Reginald John Campbell
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I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs -…
— Bethany McLean
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That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and…
— Adolf Hitler
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on…
— Adolf Hitler
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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people…
— Charles Kingsley
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Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently…
— Oscar Romero
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation;…
— Saint Augustine
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
— William Shakespeare
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of…
— Pope Pius IX
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Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life…
— John Eudes
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