Sin Quotes - page 5

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. (William Robertson Smith)
Hate the sin, love the sinner. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity. View quote
José Martí
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner. View quote
Karl Barth
For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin – except yourself. View quote
William Lane Craig
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. (Thomas Fuller)
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase. View quote
Marina Warner
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. View quote
Umberto Eco
For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin. View quote
Frederick William Faber
In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? View quote
Yukio Mishima
But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. View quote
Thomas Campbell
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. View quote
John Donne
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The sin is in our thoughts. View quote
Georg Büchner
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. (Joaquin Miller)
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged. View quote
W. H. Auden
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. View quote
Harper Lee
A vow is a snare for sin. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead