Sin Quotes

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C.S. Lewis

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Peter Marshall

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.

Piers Paul Read

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Eric Hoffer

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Blaise Pascal

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

Anon.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Mary Baker Eddy

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

Cesare Pavese

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Kin Hubbard

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

William Shakespeare

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine, attributed at hi