Sin Quotes - Page 37

• ...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Balance, World

  Herman Melville, Mary R. Reichardt (2011). “Moby-Dick”, p.654, Ignatius Press

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• Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• They may seize
  On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
  And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
  Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
  Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Blessing, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.148

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• Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

  Rob Ford

  Sin City, Cities, Want

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• God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.

  Anthony de Mello

  Cutting, Drawing, Ties

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.116, Image

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• If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Penance, Mary, Ifs

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• There is no sin but the lack of love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lack Of Love

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• Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.

  Phil Klay

  Lonely, Jobs, Communication

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.90, Penguin

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• Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.

  D. A. Carson

  Biblical, Important, Systematic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

  Richard Flanagan

  Camels, Details, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today. If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn't have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.

  Alan Chambers

  Thinking, Talking, Church Today

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• You know my issue isn't whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven. The point that I'm trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers. We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again. I don't differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.

  Alan Chambers

  Struggle, Fall, Gay

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that's a wonderful thing. But it doesn't say anywhere in that passage that the people didn't still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.

  Alan Chambers

  Struggle, Heart, Opportunity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

  Pope Francis

  Wife, Romantic Relationship

  Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.

  Stephen Karam

  Gay, Years, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

  Marianne Williamson

  Country, America, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Speaks Out, Voice

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

  Anne Rice

  Jesus, Children, Way

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need of salvation. If there is no need of salvation there is no need of a Savior. And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.

  Frank Zindler

  Jesus, Real, Thinking

  "Why evolution hurts the church" by David Catchpoole, creation.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

  Esther Smith

  Lonely, People, Envy

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• The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.

  Javad Nurbakhsh

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

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• The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Jesus, Pay The Price

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Ideas, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

  John Shelby Spong

  Titles, Scripture, Facts

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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