Sin Quotes

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

~ William Wilberforce

He [Jesus] knew no sin. Do you realize this? There has never been one moment in your life— not one moment in your life that wasn’t tainted by sin. And yet, there never was a moment in His life that was tainted by sin! Someone asked me a long time ago, What is the greatest sin you can commit? And all of a sudden it just popped in my head so I said it— I said, “Well, I suppose the greatest sin you could commit is to break the greatest commandment that’s ever been given: to love the Lord your God with all you heart, soul, mind, and strength.” Do you realize there’s never been one moment in your life that you have loved God as God ought to be loved? To even suggest that you have is paramount to blasphemy. You have never loved God in a way that God deserves to be loved. But there was never one moment in the life of the man Jesus Christ that He did not love God as God deserves to be loved! You think Jesus is great? He’s greater than you know...

~ Paul David Washer

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

~ Victor Hugo

Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

~ J.i. Packer

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

~ Flannery O'connor

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

~ Bertrand Russell

My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of finding a well-adjusted, intelligent woman. Between us, his record was more stellar, his sin more reprehensible; though, knowing my brother, he slept soundly through the night without ever experiencing the slightest remorse.

~ Richard J. O'brien

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.....Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, don't nest in corncribs,they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

~ Harper Lee

The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

~ Wess Stafford

The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about.

~ Jim Savastio

Be annoyed and sin not ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.

~ Lionel Suggs

What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?

~ Dana Michelle Burnett

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as they are not, because we see them centered on ourselves. Fear, anxiety, greed, ambition and our hopeless need for pleasure all distort the image of reality that is reflected in our minds. Grace does not completely correct this distortion all at once: but it gives us a means of recognizing and allowing for it. And it tells us what we must do to correct it. Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

~ Thomas Merton

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

~ Zadie Smith

I touched curiosity,I kissed sin, I felt regret,And I was forgiven.But life won't let me forget.

~ J.a. Anum

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

~ Pope Francis

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

~ Benjamin E. Mays

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

~ Muriel Spark

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

~ James Lovelock

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

~ Willard Van Orman Quine

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

~ John Von Neumann

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

~ Thomas Aquinas

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

~ Adam Clarke

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

Being seventy is not a sin.

~ Golda Meir

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

~ John Piper

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

~ Christopher Marlowe

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

~ Billy Sunday

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

~ Doris Lessing

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

~ John C. Maxwell

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

~ Joan Of Arc

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

~ Saint Bernard

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

~ Joseph Prince

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

~ St. Jerome