Daniel Defoe Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cheating, Devil, Literature

  Daniel Defoe (1754). “The Political History of the Devil ... The Whole Interspers'd with Many of the Devil's Adventures ... To which is Added, a Description of the Devil's Dwelling, Vulgarly Call'd Hell. The Fifth Edition. [By Daniel Defoe.]”, p.304

• I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Daniel Defoe (2015). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

• And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

  Daniel Defoe

  Blessing, Add, Hints

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.57

• Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

  Daniel Defoe

  Redemption, Affliction, Sin

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