Provoking Quote by William Shakespeare

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

— William Shakespeare

Every sin provokes its punishment.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Sin will pluck on sin.

— William Shakespeare

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

— Robert Burton

Sin carries in it its own misery.

— John Piper

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it…

— John Owen

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

— Richard Baxter

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

— Billy Graham

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

— Walter Hilton

God is always at war with sin

— G. Campbell Morgan

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

— John Owen