Sin Quotes - page 54

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life. (Hermann Hesse)
Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin. View quote
Pope Pius XII
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think? View quote
P. D. James
What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.' View quote
Chris Cornell
Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn. View quote
John Gibson Lockhart
And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone. This is the course of history. View quote
Robert LeFevre
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. View quote
Dorothy Allison
It is not that I feel less weak, but Thou Wilt be my strength. It is not that I see Less sin, but more of pardoning love in Thee, And all-sufficient grace. Enough! And now All fluttering thought is stilled; I only rest, And feel that Thou art near, and know that I am blest. View quote
Frances Ridley Havergal
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world. (Charles Spurgeon)
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be! View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Twas brighter far than noonday's beam; It shone from God within, And lit, as by a lamp from heaven, The world's dark track of sin. View quote
Jones Very
I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness. View quote
Ellen G. White
In these lessons direct from nature, there is a simplicity and purity that makes them of the highest value. All need the teaching to be derived from this source. In itself the beauty of nature leads the soul away from sin and worldly attractions, and toward purity, peace, and God. View quote
Ellen G. White
Who seeth not that he that is an evil counsellor to a prince is an evil counsellor to a realm? If it be sin to be an evil counsellor to one man, wat abomination, what devilish and horrible sin is it to be a flatterer or an evil councillor to a prince? View quote
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
De Soya blinks. "Suicide is a mortal sin,” he says. On the screen the girl nods seriously. "Yes,” she says, "but I am not a Christian. Also, I'd rather go to hell than go with you.”. (Dan Simmons)
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night. View quote
Oscar Wilde
So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others. View quote
François Fénelon
God gave His laws to Moses... and like it or not, God condemns the sin of homosexuality. View quote
Jack T. Chick