Sin Quotes - Page 7

• Sin is essentially a departure from God.

  Martin Luther

  Departure, Sinning

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.139, Da Capo Press

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• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

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• Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

  Thomas Fuller

  Men, Differences, Repentance

  Thomas Fuller (1812). “The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience”, p.31

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• There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Real, Second Best

  The Golden Notebook "Free Women: 5" (1962)

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• All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

  Cesare Pavese

  Ambition, Inferiority

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

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• If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

  Cesare Pavese

  Scary, Feelings, Vacuums

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.159, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Desire, Existentialism

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

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• How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life Lesson, Heart, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Remember, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ch. 10

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• To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Business, Integrity

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• It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sins Not

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

  Robert Pollok

  Dark, And Love, Woe

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

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• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  Mae West

  Law, Long, Cracks

  Every Day's a Holiday (motion picture) (1937)

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• There is no sin except stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Stupid, Silly

  'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

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• That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Libertarian, Spirituality, Experiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.488, Library of America

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• Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator

  J. Oliver Buswell

  Character, May, Doe

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• If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

  William Penn

  Men, Evil, Weakness

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

  John Owen

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Guilt, Stains

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, Oil, Promise

  Hosea Ballou (1848). “A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness”, p.57

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