Top 100 Sin Of Quotes
#1. Original sin - that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil - will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.
Theodore Dalrymple
#2. Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
K.P. Yohannan
#3. The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
Simone De Beauvoir
#4. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.
George MacDonald
#5. But the sin of Adam and Eve brought about a new kind of work as part of the punishment for sin. Work was now more difficult, painful, and less productive than it should have been. It brought sweat, fatigue, and toil never intended for us by our Creator.
John Hart
#6. Fear is really the sin of unbelief....I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true.
Jean A. Sturgill
#7. Sin of any kind grieves the Holy Spirit, but that form of it which finds expression in bitterness towards another child of God causes Him special pain.
Patrick Fung
#9. I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.
Jane Goodall
#10. Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
Ana Castillo
#12. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.
Jon Krakauer
#13. Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
Huldrych Zwingli
#14. Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
#15. Theological Seminary, points out that the sin of Sodom is mentioned several times elsewhere in the Bible, but never in connection with homosexual acts.
Jack Rogers
#16. Our prayer which moves the arm of God - is still a bruised and battered prayer, and only moves that arm because the sinless One, the great Mediator, has stepped in to take away the sin of our supplication.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. Intolerance is a beautiful thing ... There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.
Randall Terry
#18. Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#19. The greatest sin of our generation is that we have forgotten who we are, and that is what has cost us most. We cry out in disbelief and wonder where our sense of unity has gone.
Jordan Ervin
#20. When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added).
Jen Hatmaker
#21. When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
Simone De Beauvoir
#22. In other words, the death to sin of Romans 6 is a separation from the power of the sin nature to cause the believer to continue in sin. It
Charles C. Ryrie
#23. Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
Samuel Chadwick
#24. 29The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Anonymous
#27. It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
John Piper
#28. Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
Aldous Huxley
#29. Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
Thomas Paine
#30. 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
#31. In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, no child's behind left.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. Make friends with your needs. Welcome them. They are a gift from God, designed to draw you into relationship with him and with his safe people. Your needs are the cure to the sin of self-sufficiency.
Henry Cloud
#33. [Louise Colet was a p]roto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.
Julian Barnes
#34. The sin of fornication hinders a person from enjoying God's blessings
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
James C. Collins
#36. Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
Tertullian
#37. One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
Alan Chambers
#38. As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.
Andreas Laurencius
#39. The idea of Original Sin - of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available - is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.
Nathaniel Branden
#40. Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge. He
Stephanie Danler
#42. Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.
Rebecca West
#43. Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
David Novak
#44. You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked.
Val McDermid
#45. All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
Rebecca West
#46. Why is sexual sin so hard to deal with? Because often sexual sin becomes a sin of identity. One goal of this book is to help you face your sin in Christ, know your status in Christ if you have committed your life to him, and reject any identity that Christ has not prepared for you.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#47. Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.
James Joyce
#48. We acknowledge our trespass, our weakness, our fault; we acknowledge That the sin of the world is upon our heads; that the blood of the martyrs and the agony of the saints Is upon our heads. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Blessed Thomas, pray for us.
T. S. Eliot
#49. Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#50. Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful.
Paul Bourget
#51. His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care.
Anthony Powell
#52. That was when I learned that, in America, you don't reveal the ending of the movie, and if you do, you will be scorned and made to apologize profusely for having committed the sin of Spoiling the End.
Khaled Hosseini
#53. Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville
#54. Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins
Neil Gevisser
#55. I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. William
Umberto Eco
#56. Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#57. It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
Voltaire
#58. We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Anthony Hopkins
#59. People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.
Mardy Grothe
#60. The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
Jerry Bridges
#61. I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
#62. But then even if my atoms were a sin, so what? It was like Dad had said. As far as sins went, the sin of loving another human being made for a pretty damn excellent one.
Rose Christo
#64. So as one sin of Adam brought the punishment of death to all people, so too one good act that Christ did makes all people right with God, bringing them true life . One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right.
Saint Paul The Apostle
#65. As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:
~people applaud you incessantly.
~love you more than their parents.
~give you a daily bread.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#66. You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
Eric Hoffer
#67. To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.
Fanny Lewald
#68. Especially begging, on the part of one able to work, is not only the sin of slothfulness, but a violation of the duty of brotherly love according to the Apostle's own word.
Max Weber
#69. If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ...
It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#70. The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."
Donald J. Carty
#71. There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#72. The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society.
John Mark Reynolds
#73. At the top of the ramp, Holston saw the heaven into which he'd been condemned for his simple sin of hope.
Hugh Howey
#74. The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love.
Peter Kreeft
#75. Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.
Ben Aaronovitch
#76. The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.
Eberhard Bethge
#77. The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
R.C. Sproul
#78. James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.
Peter Morgan
#79. One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#80. There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Walter Lippmann
#81. I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.
Mark Leslie
#82. Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude.
Ann Voskamp
#83. The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
Yasmin Mogahed
#84. It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.
Ogden Nash
#85. What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.
Tony Campolo
#86. Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.
Napoleon Hill
#87. Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.
Billy Graham
#88. The sin of man was placed on a sinless Savior. 2 Cor. 5:21
John Paul Warren
#89. Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
Robert Edwards
#90. One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.
David Brooks
#91. It is not enough that Jesus died. Someone must apply the blood of Jesus to the national sin of (the) USA.
Lou Engle
#92. The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity.
Watchman Nee
#93. we are to 'hunger and thirst for righteousness'. For what is the use of confessing and lamenting our sin, of acknowledging the truth about ourselves to both God and men, if we leave it there? Confession of sin must lead to hunger for righteousness.
John R.W. Stott
#94. Fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.
R. Scott Bakker
#95. I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.
Marilynne Robinson
#96. To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.
Douglas Wilson
#97. The lesson of Left Behind is a warning to repent the sin of critical thinking, which the fundamentalist, eager for people to embrace the Gospel of irrational nonsense, equates with intellectual pride.
Robert M. Price
#98. People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs
Pascal Garnier
#99. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#100. Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged." They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.
Daniel Kahneman
