Sin Quotes

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

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

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

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

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

The only sin is mediocrity.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Sin is geographical.