Best 2296 quotes in «sin quotes» category

This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es tiempo. Es un verso sin rima, y todo depende de ti.»

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Tourism is a mortal sin.

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.

Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood