A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
Once in the end of the world hath he [Jesus] appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. - Hebrews 9 26
Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation. - Dennis R. Miller
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can! - John Paul Warren
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality. - William R. Inge
The real help victims of injustice need is to get the will, skill and resources to fight back. There may or may not be a hell in afterlife but suffering injustice quietly is a sin, punishment for which is a living hell here and now. - R.N. Prasher
I NEVER KNEW YOU."Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God. - Mac Canoza
BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? Jorace - Ambrose Bierce
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force. - C.G. Jung
La vida cambia sin avisarnos y alta velocidad nos troca la visión de qué y quién nos da paz y amor.Aprendí hace poco que nada es para siempre y que hay raíces que no merecen agua. -De su nueva novela: Pecado Original en El Caribe - Leovaldoalberto
Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God." -"I NEVER KNEW YOU - Mac Canoza
Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation. - Abhijit Naskar
The only sin is mediocrity. - Martha Graham
Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way - James MacDonald
Love the sinner and hate the sin. - Augustine of Hippo
I NEVER KNEW YOU.Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God.1 John 3:6No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him. - Mac Canoza
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me? - Annie Dillard
Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God - Stephen King
AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. - Kevin Smith
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. - William Shakespeare
Vid ett tillfälle var det ett ungt vårdbiträde som utan att tänka sig för sträckte ut sin hand när hon inte hade skyddshandskarna på och tråkade hans tårar. - Jonas Gardell
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color. - Voltaire
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
Love God, Love people, and thoroughly hate sin. ☼ ♡ ✞ - Andy Mineo
Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into - Rajesh Nanoo
Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery. - D.R. Silva
The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior - John Paul Warren
ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. - John Paul Warren
Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them. - Brett
Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes
Sin is that God said something and i don't think so. Sin is to be conceived with my own ideas. Sin is that i see it my way and not God's way.Sin is my own Ideas. Sin is Unbelieve - Mary Tornyenyor
The wages of sin are unreported. - Unknown
It's no sin to enjoy life.
We are in God’s hands. We can’t come up with a surprise big enough or a sin vile enough to thwart His plan. If we allow Him to refine us we will inevitably end up free from the impurities that separate us from Him. - Toni Sorenson
Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people. - C. JoyBell C.
Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection. - Anthony Liccione
Sin is incompatible with the glory, beauty and holiness of God. - Sunday Adelaja
Two types of dust I require to wipe my sin - Munia Khan
For således elskede Gud verden, at han gav sin enbårne søn, for at enhver som strækker ud hos ham, ikke skal fortabes, men have evigt liv (John G. Paton's oversættelse) - Max Lucado
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.
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep. - Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent
Sin libros, Dios está silencioso, la justicia dormida, las ciencias naturales paradas, la filosofía coja, las letras mudas y todas las cosas envueltas como unas heladas tinieblas".De libros legendis - T. Bartholin
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning. - Martin Luther
Holy Mother we do believe,That without sin Thou didst conceive;May we now in Thee believing,Also sin without conceiving. - A.P. Herbert
The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve. - Orrin Woodward
The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111. - David Platt
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. - William Shakespeare
If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know. - Ali ibn Abi Talib
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. - John Wesley
May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions. - M.F. Moonzajer
One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself. - Donald Grey Barnhouse
I don't know anymore, whether it's a curse or a blessing to see the beauty in the ugly. Growing up simply and getting old complexly. I now see reason behind sin, and love behind pain. - Hubert Martin
Una vida sin haber conocido el verdadero amor no es una vida plena, es una vida a medias. Y no debe darnos miedo arriesgarnos por él; lo que debemos temer es no encontrarlo jamás. - Lena Valenti
La gente habla mucho sin utilizar ninguna palabra. - Mark Haddon
He who sleeps does not sin. - Martin Luther
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways. - Shannon L. Alder
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. - John Calvin
-Cristianno, mírame...-Prefirió besarme.-Ya lo hago,amor -repuso sin alejarse de mi boca-, solo que de otra forma. - Alessandra Neymar
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off - Christopher Hitchens
The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin? - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Politics is killing religion. Religion has become a political tool of division rather than a divine tool of faith and unity. This attack of politics on religion is the real sin we are currently suffering from! - Mahmoud Own
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Chuck Klosterman
Do not support your friend in his sin today, for tomorrow he is getting converted and he will a shame you. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
If not for fear, sin would be sweet. - Jewish Proverb
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
En África, cuando un anciano muere, una biblioteca arde, toda una biblioteca desaparece, sin necesidad de que las llamas acaben con el papel - Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Sin dies in us when we stay alive in Jesus Christ. - Alisa Hope Wagner
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. - Victor Hugo
Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God’s faithfulness and forgiveness. - Jim George
¡Y sin embargo, se mueve! (Eppur si muove) - Galileo Galilei
Sin querer me volví a enamorar de alguien que no esta listo para amar, de un alma volátil que no se sabe entregar... - Dulce María
Sin querer volví a creer, me volví a entregar a una mentira, palabras vacías que sangran el alma cuando no son verdad.. - Dulce María
Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge. - Robert C. Shannon
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. - William Shakespeare
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. - Craig Ferguson
Being afraid is the worst sin there is. - Jean-Paul Belmondo
Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. - Ambrose Bierce
Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody. - Dorothy L. Sayers
Usted puede ser tan pesimista, o en su defecto tan existencialista como quiera. Sin embargo también se ha enamorado. Cómo cualquier idiota. - Emil Cioran
Sin has invaded God's creation, and we live now in a fallen world. - James C. Dobson
Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth. - M.T. Bass
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. - Dorothy L. Sayers
Sin, in its simplest definition, is the misuse or abuse of anything GOD created. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference. - Ron Brackin
The more we connect with our Spiritual self, the uglier sin looks. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label. - Eddie Capparucci, LPC
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, which is absolutely essential. But the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can save us from our sin problem. - John Paul Warren
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. - Paula Poundstone
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tú temes el mañana, sin embargo el ayer es igual de peligroso. - Idries Shah
Humans have already experienced eternity. Sin has forced us to settle for time. If you want your eternity back, you have to spend time with the Eternal one! - Garrett McCoy
The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society. - John Mark Reynolds
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief. - A.W. Tozer
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful - Frederick Locker-Lampson
Today's sin is tomorrow's alternative lifestyle. - Marty Rubin
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin. - Elena
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. - Alice Walker
Love the person. Hate the sin. - Jane Bulos
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place. - Augustine of Hippo
Love is a sin...!!! - M.Rehan Behleem
Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God. - J.R. Rim
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.
Lo peligroso del amor es que dispara sin apuntar - Dahlman Stahl
There is no sin except stupidity. - Oscar Wilde
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it. - Jetta Carleton
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there. - Bertolt Brecht
I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it. - D.R. Silva
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation. - Brigham Young
Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person. - Sunday Adelaja
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future. - Russell R. McIntyre
Se conocieron sin querer y se enamoraron sin darse cuenta. - J.B.Caplan
Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.) - Teresa of Ávila
The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart. - Robert Murray McCheyne
Freedom from sin is real - Sunday Adelaja
Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up. - Todd Stocker
A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last. - Oswald Chambers
For the wages of sin is death. - Bible
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw
If it causes you to sin your soul-just walk away - Charmaine J Forde
I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive. - Jim George
If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111] - Edward T. Welch
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him. - Bertrand Russell
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the TREE So that we might die to sin and live for righteousness By His wounds you have been healed - Anonymous
Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single. - Anthony Liccione
Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge. - Paul David Tripp
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors - Arthur W. Pink
NO one can say 'NO' to sin and 'Yes' to rightousness without the help of Holy Spirit. - I. A. Chosen
It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin. - P.T. Forsyth
Practica tu conocimiento, pues conocimiento sin práctica es un cuerpo sin vida. - Idries Shah
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
It is human to sin but divine to be saved. - Lailah Gifty Akita
One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory. - Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Beautiful people are blessed by god and those who love them.Beautiful people are loved by everyone.Beautiful people love and Forgive.Beautiful people don't Sin by heart.Beautiful people are beautiful from within.I am Beautiful, Strong and Proud Forever..! - Chitralekha Rathore
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. - Elisabeth Elliot
This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes - Hiro Mashima
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation. - Victor Hugo
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men) - Robert Penn Warren
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries. - Hasidic Saying
The burden of sin leads you to the need for a Savior. - John Paul Warren
Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29 - John Paul Warren
Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us? - William Shakespeare
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains. - Thomas Watson
Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord. - Arthur W. Pink
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Sir Winston Churchill
If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell. - Matshona Dhliwayo
God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up. - Wesley Miller
Flowers of sin, like some black sun,Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat. - Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit! - Anthony Liccione
Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world. - Clement of Alexandria
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves.
Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end. - Emily Thorne
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! - Martin Luther
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood - Rudyard Kipling
I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'... - Doug Stanhope
What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says "Forgive us our trespasses" and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. - Victor J. Banis
All stories are the sin of their weaver. - Miyuki Miyabe
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up. - Alice Walker
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. - Hyman G. Rickover
A man of logic is a man of sin. - Mike Norton
Be annoyed and sin not" ~ [2012] - R. Alan Woods
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby. - Ezra Taft Benson
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty. - Warren W. Wiersbe
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it. - Carroll Bryant
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin
Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin. - Paul Sloane
No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving. - Robert Frost
Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly. - Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar
Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it. - J. Matthew Nespoli
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. - John Paul Warren
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken
He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?) - Davis Grubb
They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions. - Emily Thorne
The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. - Ron Pearce
I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Para quien entiende, una señal es suficientePara el necio, sin embargo, mil exposiciones no son suficientes. - Idries Shah
There is no sin that will be left unpunished. - Sunday Adelaja
You will never turn from a sin you don’t hate. - Jen Wilkin
The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence. - John F. MacArthur Jr.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. - Bible
Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens. - Jeff Chu
Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image. - Praying Medic
Deprisa, sin dejar huella, sin dejar memoria, o dejándola mala, deleznable, de ceniza, que pueda una gran ráfaga barrer un día, una ráfaga que llegará un día, un luminoso viento al que no importen las cenizas. - Rafael Dieste
And give to the orphans their properties and do not substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin. The Women 4 :2 - Quran
God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ. - Matt Chandler
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. - Hannah More
Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God. - Mother Teresa
Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again. - Toni Sorenson
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. - Augustine of Hippo
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. - Francis A. Schaeffer
Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26) - Charles R. Swindoll
My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for this earthly sin. - Amit Abraham
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
Soli fjella, glein og glatt,fjell står att og stengjer …Alt er tagna. Ned kjem nattpå breie, svarte vengjer,då vaknar dulde strengjer.Og Sátan kjem med all sin her,og Himmelørn og Herrens vêr,og angest-orm,og eld og storm,og lògen stri’r som villast,og det er natt som stillast. - Olav Aukrust
Estábamos bien, y poco a poco empezábamos a no pensar. Se puede vivir sin pensar. - Julio Cortázar
If stupidity is the only sin, who is blameless? - Marty Rubin
The closer we try to get to God, the more we will hate to sin in our own lives, the more we are saddened by the thoughts that runs through our minds. I also think that the more we draw closer to God, the more God will honour us and will open doors for the right things to happen in our life. - Patience Johnson
Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair. - Ronald Rolheiser
Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess. - Craig Groeschel
God's love preceded His washing us. He washed us from sin because He first loved us. - Joseph Sayibu
Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.
Let us never be deceived into thinking that the magnitude of our sin negates His grace, for grace just abounds all the more. - Kathy Herman "Never Look Back"
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. - John Bunyan
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against. - Thomas Brooks
No importa donde estas ni lo que estes haciendo en este momento. Lo que importa es que sepas que cada instante de mi vida he pensado en ti, que aun sin conocerte, cada paso en mi camino ha sido para llegar a ti, y cada mañana abro los ojos con la esperanza de encontrarte. - Dulce María
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus - Albert Camus
WHEN SIN HINDERS YOUR WORSHIP.God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him."..However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b - Mac Canoza
Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment. - Elie Wiesel
The power of the sin is in its secrecy. Rip the covers off! - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart. - Kamand Kojouri
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin - Sunday Adelaja
My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom. - Samuel Morse
Vanity is my favourite sin. - Al Pacino
We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name. - Bruce R. McConkie
Asking forgiveness is not an admission of cowardice and of sin, It is to show that having inner peace is far more important than pride especially if they think that you have wronged them in any way. - Sun Fire Elements
Y el amor está unido al humor, ¿no es cierto? Pues no se puede amar a alguien si no se está dispuesto a aguantarlo. Y no se puede aguantar constantemente a alguien sin reírse de el, ¿no es verdad?(El hombre ilustrado) - Ray Bradbury
Hate the sin, love the sinner. - Mahatma Gandhi
Sin sorpresas, aunque sean disagredables, nadie estaria dispuesto a vivir. - David Olguín
¿Sabes que no puedo sentarme a escribir sin una colección de frases a la vista, sacadas de la última docena de ensayos y malas novelas traducidas que he leído? - Carlos Fuentes
No use wishing now for any other sin. - Elvis Costello
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account. - Matthew Henry
Every sexual sin begins with flattery. - Sunday Adelaja
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. - Juvenal
Es raro que yo hable de cosas que echo de menos, porque sin duda lo que más echo de menos es el futuro, siempre. - Remate
I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. - Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
The greatest sin is doubting God’s truth - Sunday Adelaja
It is not, in Calvin’s view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin. - Russell D. Moore
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time. - Paul Kalanithi
Never pray for just a beautiful and sexy partner, but pray for that who fear God. That he/she will not sin against his God. - Nana cwame Aboagye
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
The only sin is the sin of being born - Samuel Beckett
Your secret sin vs your destiny you decide which one wins. - Joe Joe Dawson
If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him. - Sunday Adelaja
Si diéramos a la comida, la alegría y las canciones más valor que al oro, este sería sin duda un mundo más feliz - J.R.R. Tolkien
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin - Henri Frédéric Amiel
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. - Albert Camus
Fools make a mock at sin. - Bible
Sin said, "Lust was never satisfied. She was the largest of the three, and had the loudest, most unforgiving cry. When I tried to give her breast milk, Lust wanted more food in addition, so I began to supplement my breast milk. - Stephen and Tiffany Domena
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin. - George Herbert
People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him. - D.R. Silva
Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father—as a spirit made in His sinless image. - Praying Medic
none of sin makes you better, sin always makes you get worse - Tolop Marbun
When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment - Augustine of Hippo
Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. - D.R. Silva
Calla, calla, princesa —dice el hada madrina—;en caballo, con alas, hacia acá se encamina,en el cinto la espada y en la mano el azor,el feliz caballero que te adora sin verte,y que llega de lejos, vencedor de la Muerte,a encenderte los labios con un beso de amor - Rubén Darío
El hombre depresivo es el animal laborans que se explota a sí mismo voluntariamente, sin coacción externa. - Byung Chul Han
We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins. - Vladimir Nabokov
If the devil cannot get you by SIN, he will seek to get you by IGNORANCE. - Abayomi Aikulola
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. - John Paul Warren
Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin. - Paula Hendricks
Sin is the handle by which I get Christ,... - John Duncan
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin. - Edmond de Goncourt
Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet. - Thomas Watson
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so the the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin. - Romans 6:6
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. - The Book of the Dead
The sin of fornication hinders a person from enjoying God's blessings - Sunday Adelaja
You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin. - Allan Pinkerton
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world. - John Paul Warren
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. - Charles R. Swindoll
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Assassins: they got sass and live on sin. - Natalya Vorobyova
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it. - Sunday Adelaja
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.The only vengeance worth having on sinis to make the sinner himself its executioner. - George MacDonald
Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior. - Martin Luther
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wasting sarcasm is a sin. - R. Stevens
The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin. - Rick Joyner
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
No importa qué has vivido antes de mí, lo que importa es que aun sin conocernos, el amor ya existe en mi. - Dulce María
After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance. - Mark Lawrence
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. - Franklin Graham
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. - Mark Twain
The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! - Bible
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the 'peace which passes understanding' to a world enmeshed in sin and violence. (1) - David Bentley Hart
Voy a tener que irmea un planeta sin aire.Porque eres el aire.Eres el aire.Eres el aire.Y el agua.Y los jazmines.Y mi sombra.Y mi canto.¡Vete!¿No te han dicho, acaso,que los muertos no regresan?Nunca regresan.Nunca regresan.Nunca regresan. - Poldy Bird
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever. - Coco Chanel
God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to pass, but sin and disbelieve has murdered the faith in us and need to be ressurected by purity and strong will power. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Rejecting sin is not a burden; on the contrary, it brings freedom and relief. - Sunday Adelaja
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. - Ambrose Bierce
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you want to win a game of life, there is only one way — you must be unpredictable. Otherwise life will never forgive such a deadly sin. - Elmar Hussein
All sin is ultimately irrational. Though people persuade themselves that they have good reasons for sinning, when examined in the cold light of truth on the last day, it will be seen in every case that sin ultimately just does not make sense." Wayne g - Wayne A. Grudem
We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. - Sorin Cerin
¡Qué animal tan interesante el hombre, amigo Ojeda!... Como bestia de razón, conoce la enormidad del peligro mejor que las otras bestias; pero vive alegre, porque dispone del olvido, y tiene además la certeza de que existe una Providencia sin otra ocupación que vivir por él. - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. - Robert Browning
Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin. - Andrena Sawyer
What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? - Sandra Chami Kassis
If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty - German Proverb
if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it. - David Brooks
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Conozco esas madrugadasdonde buscas a un desconocido y un conocido te busca sin que nadie llegue a encontrarse. - Jorge Teillier
To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin. - Orrin Woodward
There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus - John Paul Warren
--¿Qué es ser hombre, para vos?--Es muchas cosas, pero para mí... bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine seguro, como mi mozo, que hable sin miedo, que sepa lo que quiere, adonde va, sin miedo de nada. - Manuel Puig
Un paraíso conseguido sin esfuerzo no entusiasma al creyente. - Pío Baroja
Sin is merely the lack of Love - Gerard Bellarmino
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. - Dean Koontz
I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. - Doris Day
gratitudenoun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required. - Shannon L. Alder
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind. - Joseph Smith Jr.
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other. - Clarence Darrow
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. - Billy Sunday
If your love ones becomes your greatest enemy is a Sin - Ophelia A. Tannor
Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. - Ambrose Bierce
Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying? - Iwan Goll
I don't care what the world says. My Bible says you can't live a continuous lifestyle of sin and be a Christian. - Fritz Chery
If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, What version of Christ does he believe in? - Shannon L. Alder
Artaud decía que escribir era una marranada, que todos los escritores eran unos cerdos, sobre todo los de ahora. Lo suscribo. Sin embargo, pese a todo, continúo admirando a los jóvenes escritores. De la misma forma que admiro a los jóvenes boxeadores - Roberto Bolaño
The world will always try to lure us away so that it can infect us with sin. - Sunday Adelaja
Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances. - Sylvan Barnet
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas H. Huxley
Se fue volviendo cada vez más introvertido. Le gustaba vagar solo y sin rumbo... - Patrick Süskind
Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores - Mario Benedetti
My father told us:The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself. - Mariam Cheshire
It is mere human for man to sin. But it is divine to be saved. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of Godthat does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in whichit is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that? - Oscar A. Romero
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin! - C. JoyBell C.
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of the mind only per analogiam. - Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin. - Stormie Omartian
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done. - John Wesley
Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin? - John Pereira
Soy un poeta sin ningún preceptopero digo, sin lástima y sin pena:no hay asesino bueno en mi concepto. - Pablo Neruda
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands - Martin Luther
What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head. - Alice Walker
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. - Adlai E. Stevenson II
There is no sin greater than ignorance. - Rudyard Kipling
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. - Walter Lippmann
La corrupción es como un pantano sin fondo: de ella se puede esperar todo. - Thomas Mann
The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing. - Shannon L. Alder
The sin of man was placed on a sinless Savior. 2 Cor. 5:21 - John Paul Warren
There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just. - Solomon Northup
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism. - Bruno Schulz
Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. - The Talmud
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really. - Paula Poundstone
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. - Toba Beta
To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin. - Rev. Corey M. Osborne
Algunos piensan que dejan de enamorarse cuando envejecen, sin saber que envejecen cuando dejan de enamorarse. - Gabriel García Márquez
Sin is geographical. - Bertrand Russell
To get free from sexual sin, you have to fight. - Sunday Adelaja
Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life. - Oscar Wilde
I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! - Christopher Marlowe
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. - Billy Graham
If sin becomes an abomination to you, you will have a hundred percent victory over it. - Sunday Adelaja
¿Cómo pretendes que tras conocerte siga viviendo sin ti? - Megan Maxwell - Ni lo sueñes.
Decir que perdonas, pero hacerlo sin amor genuino, entonces es hipocresía, dolor, heridas - Maggie
The major sin is the sin of being born. - Samuel Beckett
If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented. - Gail Davis
I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power. - Carlos Fuentes
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. - C.S. Lewis
If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin. - Lionel Suggs
Si censuran tus ideas ten valor, no te rindas nunca, siempre alza la voz...Lucha fuerte, sin medida... No dejes de creer. - Dulce María
There is hope for the soul that sin; to be forgiven by the Righteous One. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. - Richard Sibbes
De las Gray, que más de una flor nace y florece sin ser vista, perfumando pródigamente el aire del desierto. - Jane Austen
Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them. - Frederick Nymeyer
The very word, sin, which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word, along with the notion. Why? Doesn’t anyone sin anymore? Doesn’t anyone believe in sin? - Karl Menninger
It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. - Leo Tolstoy