Sin Against Quotes
52 quotes by 47 authors
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For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony.…
— Tertullian
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These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him…
— George Q. Cannon
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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
— David Platt
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The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is…
— Timothy Keller
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I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h…
— Mary Daly
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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
— Erica Jong
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No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is…
— Ezra Pound
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Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
— Thomas Aquinas
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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
— R C Sproul
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of…
— Raniero Cantalamessa
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Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity.
— David Letterman
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You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods…
— George Washington Carver
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But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a…
— George Steiner
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman Rickover
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.…
— Brigham Young
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
— Aldous Huxley
Who Wrote These Sin Against Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 52 Sin Against Quotes, led by these top contributors: