Best 2296 quotes in «sin quotes» category

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

The greatest sin is sinning against love.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

The killing of innocent people is a sin.

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

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.

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

The only sin is stupidity.