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Sin Quotes by John Steinbeck
- A fallow field is a sin.
- 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…
- Thou mayest rule over sin.
- ... every little boy thinks he invented sin.
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
- The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd…
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
- Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not,…
- Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so…
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- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila