Sinned Quotes
106 quotes by 94 authors
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There are differnt kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man.…
— Barack Obama
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Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before…
— John Climacus
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Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we…
— Anthony the Great
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What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked.…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a…
— Donald Cargill
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Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
— Jerry Bridges
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Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
— Andy Stanley
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I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
— Moliere
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In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
— Henry David Thoreau
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In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have…
— David Klinghoffer
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
— Seneca the Younger
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In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
— John Donne
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No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not…
— Baroness Orczy
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I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have…
— Dorothy Allison
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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
— Eric Hoffer
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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
— Ovid
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There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do…
— Saint Basil
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