Saturday, 7 September 2013

Sins - Quotes

“I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today. - Billy Graham

A sin confessed is half forgiven. - French Proverb

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

History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't. - Edgar Watson Howe

I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. - Billy Joel

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson

In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. - Abraham Lincoln

It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned. - William Scott Downey

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. - Ignatius

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. - Elbert Hubbard

No one was ever scolded out of their sins. - William Cowper

No sin is hidden to the soul. - Bengali Proverb

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip! - Hosea Ballou

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. - William Osler

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. - Lord Bryon

Really to sin you have to be serious about it. - Henrik Ibsen

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. - William Law

Sin in its ordinary progress first deceives, next hardens, and then destroys. - John Thornton

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. - WM. Paul Young

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach. - Henry Ward Beecher

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful – just stupid). Robert Heinlein

Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them. - Henry Ward Beecher

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 worst of evil befalling sinners is not an infliction from without, but arises out of the guilt of conscience within. - Benjamin Whichcote

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. - Franz Kafka

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. - Anthony Trollope

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

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance. - Anthony Hopkins

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