Top 88 Other Sins Quotes
#1. Sin is sin. There aren't little sins and big sins. There are sins that are more acceptable than others and still other sins that bear greater consequences in the world. But God can't abide it in any form.
Kimberley Woodhouse
#2. Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.
Rajneesh
#3. The Bible talks about bestiality even less than it talks about homosexuality, but that doesn't make bestiality an insignificant issue - or incest or child abuse or fifty other sins the Bible barely addresses.
Kevin DeYoung
#4. Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
Saint Augustine
#5. Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
William Barclay
#6. I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.
Isaac Marion
#7. The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.
Timothy Keller
#8. Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Robert A. Heinlein
#9. The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.
John Owen
#10. The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC ... if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.
Charlie Munger
#11. We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
Iris Murdoch
#12. Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful
just stupid.)
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.
Thomas Aquinas
#14. That is probably why pride is not simply another sin among many, but a sin in a category of its own. Other sins lead the sinner further away from God, but pride is particularly heinous in that it attempts to elevate the sinner above God.
Anonymous
#15. Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
Walter Lang
#16. Do you not weep?
Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
John Webster
#17. Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.
John Webster
#18. Busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride.
Kevin DeYoung
#19. Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer ... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician
C.S. Lewis
#20. I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#21. Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.
Michael Monroe
#22. What sorts of sin?
Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.
Elspeth Huxley
#23. The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.
Rick Warren
#24. Southerners don't gossip; Southerners pray for one other. Of course, you have to know the details of the sinner's sins to get any good praying done, then you have to recruit others to pray, and they need the details too. It's called Prayer Circle.
Gretchen Archer
#25. Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins.
Silouan The Athonite
#26. I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,
As seas of ink I spatter.
Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins
The other kind don't matter.
Robert W. Service
#27. The right conclusion can be handled in the wrong way. Focusing on other people's sins, while ignoring our own, would be the wrong way.
Kevin DeYoung
#28. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The
A.W. Tozer
#30. The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.
Bethany McLean
#31. 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.
Dave Mustaine
#32. To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.
Henry Adams
#33. I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?
Dennis Prager
#34. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Katie Cotugno
#35. Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
John Stott
#36. It is in our forgiveness of other people's sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.
Alistair Begg
#37. And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.
C.S. Lewis
#38. To say grace is to say the forgiveness of sins; to say holiness, judgment upon sins. But since both reflect the love of God, how can there be the one without the other, forgiveness without judgment or judgment without forgiveness?
Anonymous
#39. I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"
in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.
Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?
And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#40. Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Seneca The Younger
#41. The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
Yasmin Mogahed
#42. We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
George Eliot
#43. You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Anton Chekhov
#44. We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.
John Wimber
#45. Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, one's paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.
Dada Bhagwan
#46. But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.
Tertullian
#47. I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage' ...
Doug Stanhope
#48. If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. - Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#49. Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).
Maximus The Confessor
#51. Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
Joyce Cary
#52. The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man!
John Paul Warren
#53. We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair.
Martin Luther
#54. He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
Dana Marton
#55. Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent.
John Steinbeck
#56. Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
Chanakya
#57. In that moment, Xcor thought of each of his fighters. Zypher, the sexual conqueror. Balthazar, the thief. Syphon, the assassin. And the other one who had no name, and too many sins to count. So he was referred to as Syn.
J.R. Ward
#58. It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.
Porphyrios Bairaktaris Of Kafsokalivia
#59. Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.
Thomas C. Oden
#60. Other people might have to confess their sins, but he, Morgan, could only confess their absence.
Damon Galgut
#61. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. JAMES 5:16
Francine Rivers
#62. There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
Charles Spurgeon
#63. If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
Khalil Gibran
#64. Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.
Corey Taylor
#65. I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
Orson Scott Card
#66. How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#67. Was it right to extinguish those few bright spots for the sins of the many? On the other hand, was it okay to spare all the foul corruptions for the sake of a few?
Sean DeLauder
#68. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter Raleigh
#69. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#71. Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
Pope Francis
#72. To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.
Noam Chomsky
#73. To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also.
John Bunyan
#74. 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.
William Laud
#75. The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
Flannery O'Connor
#76. It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?
John Steinbeck
#77. 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.
Mia Farrow
#78. Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#79. The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who is saved. Their very names are taken from their deeds, and are always actually justified. He comforts! The Holy Spirit comforts the believing soul, as a mother comforts her child.
John Of Kronstadt
#80. Everything other than being the second choice is hazardous of all the sins.
Swatii Chandak
#81. Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.
Maximus The Confessor
#82. So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
George Eliot
#83. But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
Herbert Butterfield
#84. Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8
Thomas Nelson Publishers
#85. Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
Thomas Paine
#86. You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#87. The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.
William Arnot
#88. More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
William Wulf
