SIN QUOTES VI

quotations about sin

The great cheat and delusion set before every generation is simply this tradition, that there is anything like real substantial pleasure in sin.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda

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Sin is a terrible reality -- and one reason it's so terrible is because it separates us from God. But sin is also terrible because it affects every one of us, no matter how good or bad we are. In other words, we are all guilty before God, and none of us deserves His forgiveness or salvation.... But does this mean our situation is hopeless? Does this mean God will never forgive us, and Heaven's door is forever closed to us? No, it doesn't -- and the reason is because God has done for us what we could never do for ourselves. We can never cleanse ourselves of our sins, no matter how hard we try -- but God has provided the way for us to be forgiven and cleansed!

BILLY GRAHAM

"Jesus is all the necessary proof that God will forgive you", Marietta Daily Journal, August 12, 2017

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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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'Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner;
We stay him not, but let him run his course,
Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes,
And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

ARISTOPHANES

The Clouds

Tags: Aristophanes


But let me tell ya, spend every day living only for yourself, every day indulging in little sins that aren't that big of a deal, and one day I may be showing you the ropes in hell. Amen.

VICTORIA SCOTT

The Collector


By our sinful falls -- the powers of the soul are weakened; the strength of grace is decayed; our evidences for heaven are blotted; fears and doubts in the soul are raised (will God once more pardon this scarlet sin, and show mercy to this wretched soul?); the corruptions in the heart are more advantaged and confirmed; and the conscience of a man after falls is the more enraged or the more benumbed.

THOMAS BROOKS

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices


The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

THOMAS MERTON

No Man Is an Island

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Sin is like fire in that it will never die out while it is supplied with suitable fuel; unpardoned by grace, it will be its own fuel, and burn forever.

JOHN BATE

Six Thousand Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths


I find that the devil often makes use of the confession of sin to stir up again the very sin confessed into new exercise, so that I am afraid to dwell upon the confession.

ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE

The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev Robert Murray M'Cheyne


And secret sin must ever share
The secret misery.

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY

I Love to Pace the Ruin'd Cell

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When the sinner hath used his liberty to repent, and God hath used his prerogative to pardon, the sin which hath been, is as if it had not been.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

MARTIN LUTHER

Dr. Martin Luther's Saemmtliche Schriften

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Sin is a slippery slope, and even the most pious of us, once we've taken those first tentative steps toward sin, find it difficult to turn back.

ROGER CARPENTER

"The Story of Sin (1975) - The Blu Review", We Are Movie Geeks, August 10, 2017


God laid no foundation of wickedness in the principles of His creation; it is an unnatural super-structure of our own, without a foundation.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter where or when or who
Has one thing in common too;
It's a -- it's a -- it's a -- it's a sin!

PET SHOP BOYS

"It's a Sin", Actually


On the determinist hypothesis an omnipotent God could have prevented all sin by creating us with better natures and in more favourable surroundings.... Hence we should not be responsible for our sins to God.

J. M. E. MCTAGGART

Some Dogmas of Religion


I don't really care whether people think I've succumbed to a life of sin, I know myself and my life, and I know that I'm healthier than I ever was when I was a "good" Christian.

DANIELLE HILBORN

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


In the lower degree of sin, God is neglected; in the higher degree of sin, God is affronted.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

SRI AUROBINDO

Thoughts and Aphorisms

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