Top 100 A Sin Quotes
#1. It was a sin to break a deathbed promise.
Arin left without making one.
Marie Rutkoski
#2. I do not believe," whispered Father Sunder, "in any God that considers love to be a sin.
Andrew Davidson
#4. Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
Saint Augustine
#5. See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin.
Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg
#6. It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke
#9. It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.
Richard Flanagan
#11. If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime
Bob Dylan
#13. When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind of a blessing. And I think if you're given something special, you ought to try and give that something back. If you don't, it's a sin. No question.
Howard Keel
#14. Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?
Iwan Goll
#15. Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward's way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face.
Brent Weeks
#16. Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
Esther Smith
#17. What? I ask. I try not to get snappy with her. She hasn't really done anything wrong. Falling in love with Turner isn't a sin, but hey, bitterness coasts the tongue, right? I try to breath past it?
C.M. Stunich
#18. Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.
Paul Silway
#19. Being by yourself is not a sin,being by yourself is worth living
Marcelle Hinkson
#22. If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.
Gary Thomas
#23. This is the profound meaning of at-tawbah, offered to everyone: sincerely returning to God after a slip, a mistake, a sin. God loves that sincere return to Him and He forgives and purifies. The
Tariq Ramadan
#24. Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.
Rohit Shetty
#25. Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
Paul Sloane
#26. Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins
Neil Gevisser
#27. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin in definition.
Harper Lee
#28. Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
Ellen Hopkins
#29. Yet when it happens to me that the music moves me more than the subject of the song, I confess myself to commit a sin deserving punishment, and then I would prefer not to have heard the singer.
Augustine Of Hippo
#30. He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.
Alice Hoffman
#31. Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.
G.M. Malliet
#32. So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.
Sun Myung Moon
#33. There is a balm in Gilead," she read from the back, "to make the wounded whole - " "There's power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul.
Louise Penny
#34. Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.
Nomi Eve
#35. I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
Billy Graham
#37. Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
Marguerite De Navarre
#39. It's not a sin! Caring for your friends feelings is not a sin! If you disappear, then Aries, myself, and everyone here will be filled with sadness! You won't be repenting your sin that way!
Hiro Mashima
#40. Why is sexual sin so hard to deal with? Because often sexual sin becomes a sin of identity. One goal of this book is to help you face your sin in Christ, know your status in Christ if you have committed your life to him, and reject any identity that Christ has not prepared for you.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#41. I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.
Terry Wogan
#42. The Greeks say it's a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. And do you remember that they say when someone is loved so, the gods become jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower?
Colleen McCullough
#43. My nose ring mixed with poor church attendance make for a sin cocktail.
Miranda Kenneally
#44. Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think
Anand Neelakantan
#45. Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.
Howard Rheingold
#46. We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong
#47. Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?
Alex Sanchez
#48. I thought ... it was easy when I thought it was something to do with the flesh. But what I'm seeing is more than that. It's love, and love isn't a sin. So how can God be so cruel as to give that feeling to two men or two women if it's a sin? I've always believed God to be compassionate. Loving.
Joey W. Hill
#49. We want to be relevant ... However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God.
Billy Graham
#50. If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die.
Lady Gaga
#54. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Toni Morrison
#55. We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#56. The way to do away with war is for those who do not want war, who regard participation in it a sin, to refrain from fighting.
Leo Tolstoy
#57. Instead, a strange voice whispered, "How can love be a sin? If God did not want us to love, then why did he create such beauty as yours?" Giulietta gasped in surprise and fear. "Romeo?
Anne Fortier
#59. A different lover is not a sin
Lady Gaga
#60. If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.
Kirk Douglas
#61. If it was a sin for you to choose me ... then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
Diana Gabaldon
#62. It's a sin only if conscience confirmed it.
Toba Beta
#63. One can be a good person and still believe that certain behaviors are a sin. I personally think lying is a sin, but some of my best friends are liars.
Tom King
#64. He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
Albert Camus
#65. A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
Ted Godwin
#66. For God also tells us that when you perform an action you believe to be a sin, it still counts as a sin even if it is proven to be permissible. Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of man.
G. Willow Wilson
#67. Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
Sun Myung Moon
#69. It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation ... either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
Alistair Begg
#70. The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
Winston Churchill
#71. To undermine a person's self-respect is a sin. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Abbey Strauss
#72. Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Ezra Taft Benson
#74. If it is a sin to be gay, then why did God make you that way to begin with? ... What kid of god would condemn someone for just being the way that they are? ... I do not believe for one second that God thinks we are unnatural or sinful because we love people of our same gender.
Jeff Erno
#75. A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#76. There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.
Rodney Stark
#77. It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
William Shakespeare
#78. Science never abandoned me the way religion had that night.
Forsaking the Holy Father was considered a sin, and I did it repeatedly. Each time my blade met with flesh, I sinned more and welcomed it.
God no longer held dominion over my soul.
Kerri Maniscalco
#79. Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.
Peter Tremayne
#80. Humans are so ignorant. That word means something else, but you use it to try to insult others. You do realize that only humans view such things as homosexuality as a sin. In the other realms it is nothing it doesn't exist as love is love and gender matters not.
Kerri E. Lorenz
#81. Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
Hamza Yusuf
#82. Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
George S. Patton
#83. Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!
Mireille Mathieu
#84. Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.
Leigh Brackett
#85. I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.
Kristin Chenoweth
#86. If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Samuel Hopkins
#87. Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
#88. Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar ... is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?"
"Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?
Julie Anne Long
#89. It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
Garrison Keillor
#90. To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
Saul Bellow
#91. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves ... and has lost.
Terry Goodkind
#92. A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.
Ayn Rand
#94. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#95. Disease is certainly not a sin. And poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.
Katie J. Davis
#97. I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.
Walter Mosley
#98. Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love. I felt it then, and I let it happen, the longing for him to return. The power in his eyes, and the pride when I did something he admired, and the love in his laugh. The longing: the longing for the lost.
Gregory David Roberts
#99. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues. The Christians call it a sin, but no poet sings of men who have no pride. Christians say the meek will inherit the earth, but the meek inspire no songs.
Bernard Cornwell
#100. It is a sin to write this.
Ayn Rand
