John Donne Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Sin, Let Me

• Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

  John Donne

  Men, Whispering, Cry

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.358, Oxford University Press, USA

• Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

  John Donne

  Men, Vanity, Sin

• Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

  John Donne

  Two, Space, Done

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.370

• In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

  John Donne

  Angel, Men, Understanding

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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