Sin Quotes - Page 19

• If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

  Monica Furlong

  Envy, Would Be, Comic

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

  Jonathan Cahn

  People, Given, Righteousness

  Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.20, Charisma Media

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• Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Dread, Impotence

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Sin Of Pride, Born

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• Tourism is a mortal sin.

  Werner Herzog

  Tourism, Mortal Sin, Mortals

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• There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Evil, Imagination

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Believe, People, Faults

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Beer, Past

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• The killing of innocent people is a sin.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  People, Killing, Innocent

  "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 18, 2010.

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• I think there's a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I'd like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

  Lino Rulli

  Couple, Thinking, Catholic

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Needs, Sometimes, Areas

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wind, Special, Hurricanes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

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• With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Hatred, Tolerance

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1975). “The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: 1828-1845”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

  James Howell

  Saved, Ifs

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• All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.

  Dolly Parton

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

  Dolly Parton

  Eyebrows, Grandfather, Jezebel

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• Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

  Simone Weil

  Humans, Wretchedness

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

  Maimonides

  Drinking, Men, Class

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Weakness, Lawyer

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• There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, People, Kind

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• Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Self, Rejection, Commit

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• Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Sky, Political

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• People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pride, People, Holiness

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• The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  H. L. Mencken

  Son, Government, Long

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Seriousness

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