Sin Quotes - page 4

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. (Pearl Bailey)
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present. View quote
Annie Besant
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. View quote
Herman Melville
The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,- And almost as delightful. View quote
Frederick Locker-Lampson
The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren't any. View quote
George Alec Effinger
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. View quote
William Shakespeare
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin. View quote
Walter Scott
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. View quote
Winston Churchill
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Love the sinner and hate the sin. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God. View quote
John of Kronstadt
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us. View quote
Ambrose
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. View quote
Jose Bergamin
I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. View quote
Ken Follett
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. View quote
Billy Graham
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. View quote
John Shelby Spong
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. (Adam Clarke)
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. View quote
David Wilkerson
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. View quote
Olive Schreiner
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. View quote
Sargent Shriver
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. View quote
Vance Havner