SIN QUOTES VII

quotations about sin

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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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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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Survivor

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I don't really care whether people think I've succumbed to a life of sin, I know myself and my life, and I know that I'm healthier than I ever was when I was a "good" Christian.

DANIELLE HILBORN

"Hate the sinner", Daily Californian, September 1, 2017


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 and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

SRI AUROBINDO

Thoughts and Aphorisms

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There are sins or (let us call them as the world calls them) evil memories which are hidden away by man in the darkest places of the heart but they abide there and wait. He may suffer their memory to grow dim, let them be as though they had not been and all but persuade himself that they were not or at least were otherwise. Yet a chance word will call them forth suddenly and they will rise up to confront him in the most various circumstances, a vision or a dream, or while timbrel and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquility of the evening or at the feast at midnight when he is now filled with wine. Not to insult over him will the vision come as over one that lies under her wrath, not for vengeance to cut off from the living but shrouded in the piteous vesture of the past, silent, remote, reproachful.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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All the sinners, all who are
in torment are my brothers and sisters.
Who is there in this world of
sin, male or female, who has not committed sin?
Let alone us: Those who are
said to be the saviours of
sinners are themselves sullied of sin.

KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM

"Sin", Rebel and Other Poems


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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The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

ANNE BRADSTREET

Meditations Divine and Moral

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If God had pardoned Sin without any amends, God would have been thought to countenance Sin: and Man would have thought Sin no great matter.

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"


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

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


The wages of sin are unreported.

ANONYMOUS

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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


Remorse withers the succulent fruits of sin.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems