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All complaining comes from pride.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.

Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

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.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

A vow is a snare for sin

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Because ALWAYS, even in the darkest moments, in moments of sin, in moments of weakness, in moments of failure, I have seen Jesus, and I trusted Him... He has not left me alone.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.