Top 51 Quotes About Mortal Sin
#1. Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' ... he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
Elmore Leonard
#2. I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
Thomas Aquinas
#4. Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.
Jimmy Buffett
#5. Anna, who has always been devout, knows well that Despair is a mortal sin, and now she knows that it is a luxury, as well.
Robertson Davies
#6. I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.
Nadine Dorries
#7. He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.
James Joyce
#8. Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
Anthony Mary Claret
#12. He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot.
James Goldman
#13. A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
Victor J. Banis
#14. For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#15. True scientists consider anthropomorphism to be something of a mortal sin and ostracize scientists who knowingly employ it in their work.
Bruce H. Lipton
#16. This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.
Catherine Of Genoa
#17. If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
Edna O'Brien
#18. 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.
Johannes Tauler
#19. Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
Benedict Joseph Labre
#20. There *is* no mortal sin. There are only *souls*, lost in a maze that someone *else* has made for them.
Mike Carey
#22. Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.
Bill Maher
#23. No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
James McGreevey
#24. While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#25. The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
Willa Cather
#26. Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
Thomas Aquinas
#27. He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
Saint Augustine
#28. It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
Thomas Aquinas
#29. We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.
Francis Of Assisi
#31. I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
George Sand
#32. I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
#33. You said earlier you don't even know what kind of ice cream you like and that's basically a mortal sin, so we're here to find out!
Stormy Smith
#34. It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.
Pope Francis
#35. Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end ...
Thomas Aquinas
#36. An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#37. It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.
L.J.Smith
#38. The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
W. Somerset Maugham
#39. A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#40. Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters
#41. God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.
Ellen G. White
#42. Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
Thomas Aquinas
#43. The idea here is that we are less wicked than we are weak. As sarx - as mortal animals - we are playthings of the devil, who uses the fear of death to push and pull our survival instincts (our fleshly, sarx-driven passions) to keep us as "slaves to sin.
Richard Beck
#44. Ashes have no fear to burn in hell
In your heart's paradise angels dwell
Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong
Your bones will sing you mortality's song
Munia Khan
#45. God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
Aeschylus
#46. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being ...
George Sand
#47. Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.
Sylvan Barnet
#48. That the mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
John Owen
#49. If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin.
Rajneesh
#50. The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have dragged them down into sin, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, so that "the dwelling of God is with humans" (Revelation 21:3).
N. T. Wright
#51. The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
Martin Luther
