Sin Quotes - Page 14

• O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
  And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

  John Milton

  Fear, Loss, Way

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.174

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• It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

  Dale Ahlquist

  Easier

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• Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

  Mark Hart

  Sometimes, Forget, Optional

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.16, Franciscan Media

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• Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

  Mark Hart

  Cancer, People, Causes

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• If you want to love God better, hate sin more.

  Mark Hart

  Hate, Want, God Love

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.13, Franciscan Media

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• Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sins Not, Ashamed, Repent

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• Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

  Mark Hart

  Father, Blessing, Talent

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.6, Franciscan Media

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• What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

  Mark Hart

  Saint, Common

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.8, Franciscan Media

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• God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Cancer, Too Much

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.9, Franciscan Media

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• The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

  Mark Hart

  Father, Heart, Curse

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• If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

  Mark Hart

  Vision, Bigs, Feels

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.36, Franciscan Media

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• You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

  Dylan Thomas

  Blow, Waiting

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• Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

  Horace Bushnell

  Taken, Names, Morality

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivation, Men, Past

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Sides, Doctrine

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

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• Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

  James Joyce

  Pride, Ruins, Lucifer

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.134, Collector's Library

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• The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Missing, Alertness, Moments

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• ...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

  Adolf Hitler

  Father, Race, Blood

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mein Kampf, Providence, Eternal

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

  Molly Ivins

  Able, Advantage, Enjoy

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.65, Vintage

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• Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Injustice, Cruelty

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan

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• To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Dirty, Oppression

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• The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Holiness

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• It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Evil, Pleasure

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