Sin famous quotes

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Trying #Sin #Committed

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Heart #Sin

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Love #Religion #Sin

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
-- Abu Bakr

#Men #Sin #Young

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
-- Adam Clarke

#Death #Sin #Fit

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
-- Adam Clarke

#Grace #Sin #Grace Of God

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Littles #Sin #Hell

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
-- Agatha Christie

#Sin #Thee

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
-- Agatha Christie

#Secret #Sin #Caps

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Liberty #Sin

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.
-- Aisha bint Abi Bakr

#Wisdom #Islamic #Sin

Vanity is my favourite sin.
-- Al Pacino

#Vanity #Sin #Favourite

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Pride #Men #Sin

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
-- Alan Redpath

#Taken #Sin #Surprise

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
-- Albert Camus

#Justice #Would Be #Sin

The absurd is sin without God.
-- Albert Camus

#Sin #Absurd #Absurdity

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Architecture #Sin #Perceive

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Prejudice #Sin #Thelema

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
-- Alexander MacLaren

#Mistake #Fool #Sin

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sin #Offense

Envy is a deadly sin!
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Envy #Sin

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
-- Alfred de Musset

#Order #Sin #Priests

Lying is the greatest of all sins.
-- Alfred Nobel

#Lying #Sin

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#People #Sin #Original Sin

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Judging #Secret #Sin

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Arrogant #Deeds #Sin

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Doe #Sin #Repentance

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Helping #Sin #Abstinence

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
-- Alice Walker

#Writing #Violence #Sin

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.
-- Alistair Begg

#People #Facts #Sin

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.
-- Alistair Begg

#Grace #One Day #Sin

We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.
-- Alistair Begg

#Christian #Realizing #Sin

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Grace #Saint #Sin

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
-- Ambrose

#Men #Sin #Lord

True repentance is to cease from sin.
-- Ambrose

#Sin #Repentance

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Success #Thought Provoking #Sin

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself
-- Amish Tripathi

#Doing Nothing #Sin #Committed

Every sin provokes its punishment.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Punishment #Sin #Provoking

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
-- Ana Castillo

#Sin #Without You #Violation

Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it
-- Anamika Mishra

#Strong #Pay #Sin

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
-- Andre Gide

#Soul #Sin

Love God, Love people, and thoroughly hate sin. ☼ ♡ ✞
-- Andy Mineo

#Hate #People #Sin

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Law #Suffering #Sin

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
-- Anita Bryant

#Hate #Sin #Sexuality

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation
-- Anne Bronte

#Hate #Sin #Salvation

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Change #Resistance #Sin

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
-- Anne Perry

#Lying #People #Sin

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
-- Anne Rice

#Temptation #Sin

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Sauce #Sin #Multitudes

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Believe #Doe #Sin

Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
-- Anthony Mary Claret

#Believe #Doe #Sin

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.
-- Anthony Ryan

#Betrayal #Lovers #Sin

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Men #Sin #Hell

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
-- Antonio Machado

#Writing #Soul #Sin

A mistake is something that you did thinking it was right but it was wrong. A sin is something that you know is wrong.
-- Anwar al-Awlaki

#Mistake #Thinking #Sin

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
-- Archibald Alexander

#Greatness #Grace #Sin

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
-- Archibald Alexander

#Stupid #Unyielding #Sin

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?
-- Arina Tanemura

#Important #Sin #Should

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
-- Armand Assante

#Earth #Sin #Deals

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?
-- Arsenius the Great

#Men #Sin #Sinner

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
-- Arthur W. Pink

#Children #Grieving #Sin

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
-- Arthur W. Pink

#Atheist #Sin #Holy

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins
-- Augustus Hopkins Strong

#May #Sin #Repentance

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Half #Sin #Repentance

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Sin #Exaggeration

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Hurtful #Sin #Forbidden

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.
-- Benjamin Watson

#Skins #Problem #Sin

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Sin #Shame

He that does not repent, sins again.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Doe #Sin #Repentance

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Grace #Sin #States

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
-- Benmont Tench

#Song #Attention #Sin

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Saint #Sin #Confession

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Wicked #Wonder #Sin

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.
-- Billie Burke

#Wish #Might #Sin

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.
-- Billy Graham

#Jesus #Blood #Sin

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.
-- Billy Graham

#Sin #God Love #Crosses

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
-- Billy Graham

#Pride #Self #Sin

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
-- Billy Graham

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Sin

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
-- Billy Graham

#Play #Toys #Sin

You choose sin. You practice sin.
-- Billy Graham

#Practice #Choices #Sin

The seed of sin is in us when we are born.
-- Billy Graham

#Choices #Sin #Born

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.
-- Billy Graham

#Thinking #Sin #Teach

The only thing He forgets is our sins.
-- Billy Graham

#Sin #Forget

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
-- Billy Sunday

#Puff #Sin #Reason

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Knowing #Sin #Wells

Satan knows your name but he calls you by your sin.
-- Bob Beaudine

#Names #Sin #Satan

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.
-- Bob Dylan

#Work #Sin #Profession

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.
-- Bob Dylan

#Cover Ups #Charity #Sin

It is a sin to do less than your best.
-- Bob Jones, Sr.

#Sin

The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin
-- Bob Marley

#Sin #Offense

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.
-- Bob Ross

#Tree #Cover Ups #Sin

Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.
-- Boonaa Mohammed

#Mean #Sin #Forgiven

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
-- Boyle Roche

#Sin #Shame #Decree

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
-- Brennan Manning

#Doe #Sin #Deals

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
-- Brent Weeks

#Men #Sin #Crime

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
-- Brent Weeks

#Sin #Flaws #Multitudes

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
-- Brent Weeks

#Prayer #Sin

Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.
-- Bridget of Sweden

#Kindness #People #Sin

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.
-- Brigham Young

#Prayer #Men #Sin

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.
-- Brigham Young

#Sin #Ingratitude