Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1885 authors
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,…
— Samuel Butler
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
— Lord Byron
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin…
— Archibald Alexander
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What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are…
— Tony Campolo
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit…
— John Calvin
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I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah,…
— Kirk Cameron
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and…
— Albert Camus
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
— Roger Caras
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It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never…
— Donald Cargill
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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do…
— Jonathan Carroll
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent…
— Benjamin Carson
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
— Jimmy Carter
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
— Jimmy Carter
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God,…
— Adam Clarke
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Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
— Eric Alterman
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I…
— Kingsley Amis
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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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