Sin Quotes
4044 quotes by 1860 authors
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Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, Thou fount of life, thou Light of men, From the best bliss that earth imparts We turn unfilled to…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love…
— Robert Southey
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Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny…
— Preston Sturges
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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . .…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O…
— Frank I. Kooyman
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DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper…
— Ambrose Bierce
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O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.…
— Hyrum W. Smith
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Sex is not a sin. Many people have complained that this is taking all the fun out of sex.
— Ruth Westheimer
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The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."
— Donald J. Carty
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Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell…
— Seneca the Younger
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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each…
— John Milton
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Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The…
— Hector Berlioz
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Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that…
— Charles Thomas Jackson
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Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will look upon us…
— Tikhon of Zadonsk
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What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as she humbles herself.…
— Silouan the Athonite
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