Sin Quotes
4044 Sin quotes by 1784 unique authors
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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,…
— John Steinbeck
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Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of…
— Merlin Stone
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Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.
— David Sedaris
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You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).
— Francis Chan
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Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
— Francis Chan
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...when we are loving, we can't sin.
— Francis Chan
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...you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.
— Francis Chan
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Besides, there wasn’t a breed of succubi out there that didn’t steal something. Whether it was your seed, your soul, your life-force, or your heart,…
— Larissa Ione
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Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin…
— Richelle Mead
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone…
— Wendell Berry
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It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
— John Calvin
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ and the healing it offers do much more than provide the opportunity for repentance from sins. The Atonement also gives…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always…
— Oswald Chambers
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I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties,…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.
— Mario Puzo
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
— Henri Nouwen
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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is…
— Anne Bronte
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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
— Leo Tolstoy
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A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
— Raymond Chandler
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But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I…
— Saul Bellow
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