Sin Quotes

4044 Sin quotes by 1784 unique authors

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of… — Timothy Keller
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. — Timothy Keller
Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all. — Kajol
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may… — W. Somerset Maugham
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. — Saint John Chrysostom
It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act… — Emile M. Cioran
Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. — Madeleine L'Engle
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E L Doctorow
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our… — Thomas a Kempis
What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously… — James Dobson
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better. — Sydney J. Harris
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there… — George Orwell
Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what… — John Donne
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man. — John Donne
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin. — John Dryden
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. — John Dryden
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. — Herman Melville
We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love the offender, yet detest the offense. — Alexander Pope
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed… — James Bryce
We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win. — John Lennon
The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer… — Billy Graham

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