Sin Quotes - page 2

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. (Henry L. Stimson)
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. View quote
Howard Dean
I am inclined to believe that the sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. View quote
James A. Garfield
Really to sin you have to be serious about it. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Sin is whatever obscures the soul. View quote
André Gide
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only sin is mediocrity. (Martha Graham)
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
I am a man More sinned against than sinning. View quote
William Shakespeare
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. View quote
William Shakespeare
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. View quote
Richard Stallman
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. View quote
José Martí
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Darwin)
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. View quote
John Bunyan
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE. View quote
Max Heindel
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley