Sin Quotes

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

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

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

It's a sin to be tired.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.