Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

• Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Hurt, Selfish

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.715, Jazzybee Verlag

• It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Character, Fire, Voice

• And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hurt, Anger, Way

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.614, Delphi Classics

• The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Anger, Hands, Sorrow

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.250, Jazzybee Verlag

• You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Errors, Devil

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.945, Jazzybee Verlag

• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Sweet, Cells

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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