Sin Quotes

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

A "sin" is something which is not necessary.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

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.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

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

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.