Unforgivable Sin Quotes

• Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

  Graham Greene

  Acceptance, Despair, Pay

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Splendor, Sin, Unforgivable

  "Universal History of Infamy". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1935.

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• The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sin, Boring, Unforgivable

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• The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cruelty, Deliberate, Sin

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• The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Forgiveness, Unforgiving, Sin

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• The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.

  Unknown

  Bankers, Germany, Economic

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• That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

  Gene Wolfe

  Remains, Capable, Sin

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.221, Macmillan

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• All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Different, Done

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• Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.

  Dorothy Cannell

  Lists, Punctuality, Sin

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• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Fall, America, Sick

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Rendezvous”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Politics, Economy, Dangerous

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• Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Sin, Unforgivable, Neighbor

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• That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Different, Literature, Sin

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.438, Hamilton Books

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• 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, Beckett

  Anthony Burgess (1971). “The Novel To-day”

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• I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Thinking, People

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• The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

  George Santayana

  Forgiveness, Refusal, Pardon

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• Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sadness, Sins Not, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 30, 2016

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