Top 53 I've Sinned Quotes
#1. Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.
William Styron
#2. Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
Jerry Bridges
#3. 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
#4. You know we've all sinned a lot against science
so we really ought to be as available as an apple
on a bough
pleasant thought fresh air free love cross-pollenization
oh oh god how I'd love to dream let alone sleep
Frank O'Hara
#6. I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
Dorothy Allison
#7. I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness.
Jimmy Swaggart
#8. Instead of dwelling on the wickedness and grief of those who have sinned, I rejoice to read how many have abandoned their sinful practices and are now on the road back to righteousness and happiness. Let us rejoice in the spirit of forgiveness, which is the comforting message of the Atonement.
Theodore M. Burton
#9. In life I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, vous comprenez? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well. The sinner may deny it ... but in his heart he knows. He does not deserve to be happy.
Nikki Sex
#10. Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore.
Howard Pyle
#13. Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin ... I poked a badger with a spoon.
Eddie Izzard
#14. Spank me father for I have sinned.
L.B. Shaw
#15. For someone who has sinned as much as I have, every moment of contemplation becomes an unexpected gift from the Creator Himself.
Javier Sierra
#16. How rare it is, even among Christians, for a person to say I was wrong. I sinned, and I'm fully responsible. My sinful desires motivated me, and what I did dishonored God and hurt you. Please forgive me.
Joshua Harris
#17. Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
Ovid
#18. I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, comprenez-vous? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well.
Nikki Sex
#19. I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Lear, 9.60).
James Shapiro
#20. God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)
Hwang Sok-yong
#21. Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God ... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
Aurangzeb
#22. But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren't for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all.
I told on them.
I was jealous.
God forgive me, for I have sinned.
Lauren Oliver
#23. [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day
to you, thief of fire, I speak.
Aeschylus
#24. Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
Ambrose
#25. I am now convinced that we evangelicals have often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of the Mormon community.. Let me state it bluntly to the LDS folks here this evening: We have sinned against you.
Richard J. Mouw
#26. The plain and simple fact was everyone sinned. Either they were good at hiding their sins, or they weren't. I fell in the latter category. My sins had been featured front and center, on display for everyone to judge.
Tiffany King
#27. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
Oswald Chambers
#28. I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame ...
Dodie Smith
#30. That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it
Patricia McCormick
#31. The devil's first trick is to get us to say, "I have not sinned." And then his last blow is to make us think, "My sin is too great to be forgiven." But humble faith accepts God's judgment upon itself, and escapes judgment.
A.B. Simpson
#32. In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.
Martin Amis
#33. I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.
I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand.
Toba Beta
#34. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
Frank McCourt
#35. Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life.
Anonymous
#36. And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#37. To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!
Greg Laurie
#38. I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. - Raistlin Majere
Margaret Weis
#39. gospel grief." It works like this: if Christ had to die for my sins, then no matter what their effect on others or me, the greatest effect was on Christ, and I mourn the fact that I have sinned against such love.
R. W. Glenn
#41. I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
Aleksandar Hemon
#42. You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way
it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven
Martin Buber
#43. When you get to Hell look for me; I'll be sitting in the hot-tub waiting."
Cate Harlow
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#44. I'm blessed, for I have sinned with the best damned fuck in the universe.
Christie Ridgway
#45. I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood
Judas Iscariot
#46. The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had, in some way, sinned against the harmony of the universe
Joseph Conrad
#47. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned," I repeated. "But never as much as I have been sinned against!
Wally Lamb
#48. Then it is he who has sinned, not me. If I had to start worrying whether the client might be lying, I would no longer be in this profession, which is based on trust.
Umberto Eco
#49. If a man sins and denies it, saying, 'I have not sinned,' do not correct him, or you will destroy any intention he might have of changing. If you say, 'Do not be cast down, my brother, but be careful about that in the future,' you will move his heart to repent.
Poemen
#50. Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.
James MacDonald
#51. I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.
Ray Comfort
#52. I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a bitch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it.
Ava Gardner
#53. I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Donald Cargill
