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Sin Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin,…
- Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like…
- Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
- For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in…
- We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
- Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness…
- The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.
- It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation;…
- Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
- There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive…
- Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
- Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
- He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
- He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him…
- That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
- Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride…
- Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
More Sin Quotes
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet
- Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart. — Johann Arndt
- It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
- In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt
- We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball