SIN QUOTES VII

quotations about sin

Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

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God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

MARTIN LUTHER

Dr. Martin Luther's Saemmtliche Schriften

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When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter where or when or who
Has one thing in common too;
It's a -- it's a -- it's a -- it's a sin!

PET SHOP BOYS

"It's a Sin", Actually


Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

JOHN OWEN

The Mortification of Sin


Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

JOHN GREEN

The Fault in Our Stars

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Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

MARK TWAIN

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Many refuse to let Christ in when he knocks at the door of their hearts for the express purpose of paying their debt of sin. These people are like the poor tenant woman of whom we once read. She could not pay her rent and her landlord was about to put her out of his house. Her pastor heard of her distress and hastened with the money to pay her rent for her. She heard the knock at the door, but supposing it was her hard-hearted landlord, she hid and refused to open the door.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


Remorse withers the succulent fruits of sin.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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The great cheat and delusion set before every generation is simply this tradition, that there is anything like real substantial pleasure in sin.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


In the lower degree of sin, God is neglected; in the higher degree of sin, God is affronted.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Sin is the great element of hell, and where it exists heaven cannot be. Its triumphs are deeper than those of time, and more terrible than death. It has swept over the moral world, more glorious than the physical, and blighted by the beautiful and desecrated the holy. It has scattered abroad and afar the seeds of envy, war, lust, intemperance, murder, and all abomination and iniquity. It has drawn man aside from innocence and rectitude, and he has gone forth from the joy of Eden with a bowed head and a burning heart; and, worse than all, it has spread a veil athwart his moral vision, and alienated him from his Maker.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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If our goal is to be close to God, to have a relationship with God, sin is the stuff that knocks us off course or sends us in another direction.

JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE

"Let's talk about sin, shall we?", Bashaw Star, August 10, 2017


Sin is a black foil, but it setteth off the jewelry of heaven.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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God laid no foundation of wickedness in the principles of His creation; it is an unnatural super-structure of our own, without a foundation.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


It's beginning to start...
When you're lying like a tart
Oh sin in my heart
When you grovel at my feet
Oh sin in my heart
It's short and sweet

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES

"Sin in My Heart"


Sometimes we keep the sin in our lives well protected, guarded, covered over with lies. Sometimes we are not free enough to own our sin, so we cannot be healed of it. An unacknowledged wound cannot be healed.

MACRINA WIEDERKEHR

Seasons of Your Heart

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The wages of sin are unreported.

ANONYMOUS

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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove

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The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and hope.

PLATO

The Republic

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