Top 100 Quotes About Transgression
#1. As Lasch understood, for progressive politics anti-moral transgression has always been a bargain with the devil, because the case for equality is essentially a moral one. Equally
Angela Nagle
#2. I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.
Joyce Carol Oates
#3. The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.
Thomas S. Monson
#5. Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
Bob Marley
#6. Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
T. S. Eliot
#9. Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
E.L. Doctorow
#10. 13Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of ggreat transgression.
Anonymous
#11. Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.
James E. Faust
#12. If it's a slip or even a fall in your deen (religion), don't let shaytan (satan) deceive you. Let the slip make you witness His mercy in a more experiential and deep way. And then seek that mercy to save you from your sins and your own transgression against yourself.
Yasmin Mogahed
#13. Our sinful nature breeds envy, self-sufficiency, entitlement, and transgression. Envy, self-sufficiency, entitlement, and transgression breed isolation. Isolation breeds life problems (emotional, behavioral, rela-tional).
Henry Cloud
#14. One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent; that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Sheri S. Tepper
#16. I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.
The Great Pacifist
#17. Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bondman of sin.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#18. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.
Margaret Atwood
#19. Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.
R. Scott Bakker
#20. If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.
Gil Blake
#21. Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#22. Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#23. Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.
Billy Graham
#24. A woman on the verge of moral downfall ought to be well dressed. Claire's particular transgression was gartered to her thigh, a paper hidden by yards of silk. She walked through the empty alley, confident in one comforting truth: no one dared ask a lady what her skirts concealed...
Gina Conkle
#25. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.
Ayn Rand
#26. Transgression of the law of God, not the neglect of external, man-made ceremonies, that defiles a man.
Ellen G. White
#27. Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die?
Emil M. Cioran
#29. Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression,
K'wan
#30. The whip was the standard punishment for disobedience. Running away was a transgression so large that the punishment enveloped every generous soul on her brief tour of freedom.
Colson Whitehead
#31. Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Robert Herrick
#33. The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. 'Wickedness never was happiness' [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#34. What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.
Raheel Farooq
#35. Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.
Georges Bataille
#36. That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don't know.
Georges Bataille
#37. Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.
James E. Faust
#38. When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases, but the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall see the fall of the wicked.
Anonymous
#39. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Anonymous
#40. There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
Boyd K. Packer
#41. Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod
#43. So many writers make dope glamorous; a form of romantic transgression, or world-weariness, or poetic sensitivity, or hipness. Mainly it's the stuff of ritualistic communion among inarticulate bores.
Leonard Michaels
#44. Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.
Paul Kalanithi
#45. The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.
Hermann Hesse
#46. Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#47. 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Hanif Kureishi
#48. 11A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.
Anonymous
#49. Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#50. I'm free in Jesus mighty name. I'm free. He casts out every sadness. Every burden. Every wounded transgression. He washes away my sins.
Abigail George
#51. Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
Bruno Dumont
#52. Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place
Sara Ahmed
#53. He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule.
Antoine Laurain
#55. A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.
Jody Shields
#56. When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#57. There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville
#58. redemption in Christ means to cease the transgression of the law of God and to be free from every sin; no
Ellen G. White
#59. Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
Boyd K. Packer
#60. In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.
Jean Baudrillard
#61. Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
#62. I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.
Holly Black
#63. 11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#64. I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
Kate Christensen
#65. I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.
Abdellah Taia
#66. Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet ... So if love is to be our watchword, as it must be, them by the word of Him who is love personified, we must forsake transgression and any hint of advocacy for it in others.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#67. Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.
Alexander MacLaren
#68. they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.
Michelle Frost
#69. All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
Milan Kundera
#70. That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel ...
William Shakespeare
#71. That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
Alexander MacLaren
#72. The transgression of Adam and Eve was not in learning the difference between good and evil but in treating the knowledge they received as something that was, literally, internal to them-a food that could be seized, devoured, and controlled by the individual.
Michael Rips
#74. The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#75. The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
Paracelsus
#76. NUM14.18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Anonymous
#77. There is a darkened corridor, forgotten by the sun, shrouded in shadow and transgression.
Michael Hibbard
#78. Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.
Alain De Botton
#79. In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Francis Bacon
#80. There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.
C. Scott Grow
#81. Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
D. Todd Christofferson
#82. As a witness of the Savior, I exhort you to forgive any you feel may have offended you. If there is transgression, repent of it, that the Master may heal you.
Richard G. Scott
#83. is, in the words of The Westminster Shorter Catechism, "any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God" (Q. 14).6 Sin is mutiny, either by its omission ("want of conformity to") or its commission ("transgression of the law of God").
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#84. All sex, and indeed all pleasure, must include a poisonous drop of perversion, of devilish transgression - of evil, even - for it to be worth getting into bed for.
Hanif Kureishi
#85. Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer's fulfillment of the law.
Ernest F. Kevan
#86. It is only when a Christian recognizes that drinking is not only a harmful habit, but also a transgression of a God-given principle to ensure our health and holiness, that he or she will feel compelled to abstain from intoxicating substances.
Samuele Bacchiocchi
#87. Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.
Hanif Kureishi
#88. Heart was tender. She probably felt shame for a transgression others would've long forgotten.
Nalini Singh
#89. Go to sleep then, safe in the financial fortress you built on a transgression and yet still it stands.
Liane Moriarty
#90. Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.
Auliq Ice
#91. It is in the nature of every application of violence that it tends toward a transgression of the limit within which it is tolerated and viewed as legitimate.
Ludwig Von Mises
#92. The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.
Ayn Rand
#93. The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
Graham Joyce
#94. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.
Richard Ronald Allan
#95. God himself not only participated in the human condition, but also sacrificed himself for their transgressions.
James Mikolajczyk
#97. You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.
Bryant McGill
#98. The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
Susan Sontag
#99. Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#100. Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin?
Master of Stupidity: No stupidity, no sin.
Toba Beta
