Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony.…
— Tertullian
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How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush…
— Pope Pius XII
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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
— Garrison Keillor
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The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on…
— Orosius
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Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that…
— Dwight L. Moody
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WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.
— Pope Pius XII
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to…
— Pope Pius XII
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can…
— Mark E. Petersen
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Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.
— Robert Southwell
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a…
— Louis de Montfort
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Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to…
— Louis de Montfort
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God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice,…
— Caesarius of Arles
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your…
— Claude de la Colombiere
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The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up…
— Innocent of Alaska
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Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath…
— Lyman Abbott
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This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying,…
— Arcturus Z. Conrad
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