SIN QUOTES III

quotations about sin

Sin quote

Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


If it were not for sin, we should converse together as angels do.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it."

DAVID SEDARIS

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

BRENNAN MANNING

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging


Our sins are like a carousel where the same decorated dogs, pigs, and goats, ridden by the foolish, come around again and again until the machine wears out.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The worst of evil befalling sinners is not an infliction from without, but arises out of the guilt of conscience within.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


It is difficult for any soul to sin very outrageously so long as she feels the pressure of Christ's hand in hers.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The Friendship of Christ

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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun
You know that only the good die young

BILLY JOEL

"Only the Good Die Young"


Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

JOHN ORTBERG, JR.

The Me I Want to Be


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

Treasury of Thought

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Look on Sin and loathe it;
With minds loathing it,
Then will ye make
An end of Misery.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka

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7 deadly sins
So many rules to bend
Time and time again
7 deadly sins

TRAVELING WILBURYS

"7 Deadly Sins"


Often in the hearts of sinners there is a deep love of goodness, fostered by the experience of sin. It may persist while the sinner goes on sinning. Through sinning it may grow stronger and achieve a wonderful humility. Haven't you noticed how genuinely attractive sinners often are? When they are frank in their sinning, free from pretense, they are nearly always likable. It is when they are hypocritical or brazen that they repel. To such fall none of the perquisites of sin. It is notorious that many people considered good by others and by themselves are the severest judges of their fellow-creatures, the most ready to condemn. There are good women who in their moral judgments achieve an almost inhuman cruelty. On the other hand, there are sinners who, through sinning, have reached a Christ-like patience with others, expressing itself in the kind of sympathy that can come only from perfect understanding, from the power to feel with other sinners. For they know that the state of sinning is not joyous but sad, that it is not to be condemned but to be pitied. And this knowledge flowers into qualities that in people about them cause amazement and mystification. These qualities are rare perquisites.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Perquisites of Sin", Intimations


What do you do when that sin is a part of who you are?

DANIELLE HILBORN

"Hate the sinner", Daily Californian, September 1, 2017


Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

RICHARD BAXTER

The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter

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I am a man
More sinn'd against than sinning.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear


Most sins ... are only perverted virtues.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Perquisites of Sin", Intimations


Though our sins, our hearts confounding,
Long and loud for vengeance call,
Thou hast mercy more abounding,
Jesus' blood can cleanse them all.

EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH

"Dread Jehova, God of Nations"

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