Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1885 authors
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
— David Hare
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
— H. L. Mencken
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
— George Santayana
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in…
— Horace Bushnell
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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the…
— John Steinbeck
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All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is…
— Rajneesh
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,…
— Peter Abelard
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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
— William Ames
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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and…
— Walpola Rahula
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Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial…
— Orson Pratt
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Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is…
— John Stott
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children…
— Olympia Dukakis
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To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.
— Pope Leo X
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Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life,…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But…
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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