William Cowper Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence,
  Till perjuries are common as bad pence,
  While thousands, careless of the damning sin,
  Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

  William Cowper

  Book, Kissing, Looks

  William Cowper (1866). “Poetical works”, p.76

• When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

  William Cowper

  Church, Leprosy, Sin

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.57

• God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Men, Devil

• No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

  William Cowper

  Sin, Scolded

• Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Punishment, Speak

  William Cowper (1872). “Table Talk”, p.58

• As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

  William Cowper

  Ivy, Rotten, Stones

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 285

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