Sins Quotes

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

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

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

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

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

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

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.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

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