Sins Quotes

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.