Amends Quote by William Shakespeare

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

“Anything that's mended is but patched. Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue”

— William Shakespeare

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

— Sri Aurobindo

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

— William Shakespeare

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

— Anonymous

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever else it…

— Andrew Davison

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

— Philip Yancey

The only sin is mediocrity.

— Martha Graham

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

— John Steinbeck

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment.…

— Frank Miller