Sin Quotes

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.

Christopher Hitchens

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Henrik Ibsen

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Phyllis McGinley

Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.

John H. Mccomb

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Eric Butterworth

The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.

Cecil J. Sharpe

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Henry David Thoreau

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Mark Twain

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Plato

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

Robert Irvine

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C.S. Lewis

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.

Christopher Hitchens

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

Jodi Picoult