Sin Quotes
4044 Sin quotes by 1784 unique authors
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
— Bertrand Russell
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That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
— Gene Wolfe
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Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God…
— Rick Warren
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I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night…
— Hermann Hesse
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Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not…
— Ian Fleming
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being…
— John Ortberg
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Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model…
— David Bentley Hart
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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult…
— Melanie Benjamin
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not…
— Oscar Wilde
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When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his…
— August Wilson
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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat…
— Oscar Wilde
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think…
— Oscar Wilde
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
— Hilary Mantel
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
— Peter Kreeft
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I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t…
— Robert W. Service
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..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse…
— Yukio Mishima
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Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre:…
— Marlon James
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That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself. Immortal, he never…
— John Piper
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Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for…
— John Piper
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The point is, Sin is now going to try to overthrow me again and take my place. Do you know what that means? (Artemis) There…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Don’t you have something to do? (Sin) If not for the fact it would result in your breaking every bone in my body and making…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Then you’re going to stay in that net until eternity comes to pass. (Sin) Well, that’s really intelligent, isn’t it? What are you going to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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