Top 42 Deadly Sin Quotes
#1. Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.
Kamila Shamsie
#3. Greed is rightly considered a "deadly sin" because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival [...] replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.
Bell Hooks
#4. It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot ... It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.
Jennifer Donnelly
#5. Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters
#9. At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
Ian Fleming
#10. People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.
Jonathan Sadowski
#11. Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
Garrison Keillor
#12. Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.
Suzanne Enoch
#13. To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.
Donald J. Boudreaux
#14. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.
Rafael Sabatini
#16. It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
Andrea Yates
#17. The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#18. Grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything. After these smaller deaths, we know that the only "deadly sin" is to swim on the surface of things, where we never see, find, or desire God and love.
Richard Rohr
#19. Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin."
"And spanking."
"I think that falls under lust."
"I think it should have its own category." said Jace
Cassandra Clare
#20. There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
John C. Maxwell
#21. Envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to ...
Michael Gruber
#22. Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.
Martin Luther
#23. I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
Jenny Colgan
#24. This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.
R.W. Schmidt
#25. Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.
Edward T. Welch
#26. 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
#27. The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
Robert Breault
#28. Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Tom Robbins
#29. Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.
Laverne Cox
#30. Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills - everything.
Billy Graham
#31. Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#32. All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!
("The Jelly-Fish")
David H. Keller
#33. HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
J.C. Ryle
#34. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy; but when sin is seen and felt, it has received its deathblow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness, or more hopeful than contrition.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#35. Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.
Richard M. Nixon
#36. The living sinners on deadly ground.
Toba Beta
#37. He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
Charles Frazier
#38. All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
Marilyn Manson
#39. Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
John Stott
#40. Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
Lester Del Rey
#41. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
Charlie Munger
#42. Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.
Richard Dawkins
