Top 100 Quotes About Sins
#1. The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.
Timothy Keller
#2. Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
Reid Hoffman
#4. I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.
Woody Allen
#5. not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become weak.
Anonymous
#6. Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.
Dorothy Cannell
#7. Healing infirmities or forgiving sins, Jesus always responds to a prayer offered in faith: Your faith has made you well; go in peace.
The Catholic Church
#8. We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#9. Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
William Barclay
#10. It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
J.C. Ryle
#11. The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.
Robert Jeffress
#12. The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
Yasmin Mogahed
#13. The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
Watchman Nee
#14. He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins ...
St. Maximos The Confessor
#15. As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, "I did it, my sins sent him there," and "He did it, his love took him there.
John R.W. Stott
#16. Only [God] can convict nonbelievers of their sins; only He can convince them of the truth of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#17. Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin.
Louise Penny
#18. Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
John Piper
#19. I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.
Bill Maher
#20. When it comes time for punishment for our sins, surely it's only the person who's done wrong who's expected to pay?"
Sister Agnes smiled, "Not even them, if they've accepted the Savior.
Elizabeth Ludwig
#21. Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason ...
Thomas Aquinas
#22. We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
George Eliot
#23. Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.
Watchman Nee
#24. At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.
Josemaria Escriva
#25. There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#26. I'd die for your sins, but I'd probably enjoy them first
Josh Stern
#27. The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#28. You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.
August Wilson
#30. God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
Saint Augustine
#31. This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.
R.W. Schmidt
#32. If, with a single glance, you could see everything in the world spread out before your eyes, how fruitless a sight that would be! Raise your eyes to God on high and pray for your sins and deficiencies.
Thomas A Kempis
#33. Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.
Pope Pius XII
#34. God withdrew from the temple in Ezekiel's day because He would not and could not dwell together with idolatry, immorality, and violence. The principle will never change - the Lamb will not be married to someone who remains wedded to his sins, in spite of what some modern teachers claim.
Michael L. Brown
#35. I have committed the worst of sins one can commit ... I have not been happy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#36. Lord, You have extended such grace to me. You have forgiven my wickedness and remembered my sins no more. (Heb. 8:12) Help me to demonstrate my gratitude by forgiving others!
Beth Moore
#37. All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
Franklin Graham
#38. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#39. Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.
Abdullah, Son Of Masud
#40. Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
Ian Fleming
#41. I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
Elizabeth Janeway
#42. If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.
Nick Joaquin
#43. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich
Oscar Wilde
#45. Faultfinders will not be able to humble themselves to repent of their own sins because they are too busy looking at the sins of others.
Greg Gordon
#46. Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings
#47. Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
Joel Osteen
#48. You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Anton Chekhov
#49. 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
#50. If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.
Christopher Hitchens
#51. God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
Robert Irvine
#52. There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
George MacDonald
#54. Take adultery or theft.
Merely sins.
It is evil who dines on the soul,
stretching out its long bone tongue.
It is evil who tweezers my heart,
picking out its atomic worms.
Anne Sexton
#56. I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins
Banky W.
#57. Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
Watchman Nee
#58. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
Jacqueline Carey
#60. Beauty. We must know for our comfort that Christ was not anointed to this great work of Mediator for lesser sins only, but for the greatest,
Richard Sibbes
#61. Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings
#62. Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.
Piers Paul Read
#63. If you are united with Christ today, the number of sins you will commit in your lifetime is a finite number, and they were all paid for in full before you emerged from your mother's womb.
Barbara R. Duguid
#64. Whether we say the Names of the Lord indirectly, jokingly, as a musical entertainment, or even neglectfully, it will still immediately relieve one from the reactions of unlimited sins.[43] The Mahamantra started to do its job on us.
Sriram R
#65. Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#66. 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
#67. Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
Johannes Tauler
#68. Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don't take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact that he's your brother. That's how it can be borne.
Anne Tyler
#69. It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.
Ambrose
#70. Remind your council that the sins of the fathers aren't that of the sons.
Amelia Hutchins
#71. I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
Alveda King
#72. Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
Vance Havner
#74. The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.
John Shelby Spong
#75. Indian believes they ain't but two sins ... bein a coward ... and turnin agin yer own kind.
Forrest Carter
#76. The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.
Michael Horton
#77. 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
#78. Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Victor Hugo
#80. So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's blackmail."
"Add it to my list of sins."
"I don't think there's room left on that list," Josey said as she took a dress from its hanger. Then she closed the closet door on Della Lee.
Sarah Addison Allen
#81. I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life ...
Russell Johnson
#82. The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Livy
#83. Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
R.A. Torrey
#84. We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
Jerry Bridges
#85. There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Oscar Wilde
#86. But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I hug them close; they're mine.
Hilary Mantel
#87. I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.
Jan Hus
#88. [O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
Richard Baxter
#89. 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
#90. Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.
Joseph Hall
#91. Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#92. Greetings," he said. His tone admitted of no weakness whatsoever. "I am Drill Instructor (Slaughterhouse) Larry Southard. For my sins, I have been placed in charge of the latest intake of prospective marines. With
Christopher G. Nuttall
#93. Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
#94. I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
Karl Kraus
#96. Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
James Barrett Reston
#97. An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
Thomas Brooks
#98. Haunt me,
my little ghost,
Posses me
Live inside me,
And scare away my sins
Until there's nothing left.
But You.
Nyrae Dawn
#99. Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.
Thomas Goodwin
