Sin Quotes
4044 Sin quotes by 1784 unique authors
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
— George Orwell
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Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not…
— Craig Ferguson
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I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a…
— Martin Luther
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You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why…
— Abraham Verghese
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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
— Timothy Keller
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
— John Green
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
— Edward Abbey
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Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that…
— J I Packer
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And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
— Wilhelm Grimm
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There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,…
— Ilona Andrews
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no one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it,
— Abbi Glines
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If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so…
— Christopher Marlowe
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
— John Irving
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It's a sin to bore people.
— R C Sproul
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts.…
— Paulo Coelho
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
— William Shakespeare
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
— John Milton
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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
— Victor Hugo
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
— Oscar Wilde
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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the…
— Oscar Wilde
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