Sin Quotes - Page 18

• With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Hatred, Tolerance

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1975). “The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: 1828-1845”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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• Little sins are pioneers of hell.

  James Howell

  Pioneers, Littles, Hell

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• We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

  James Howell

  Saved, Ifs

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• All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.

  Dolly Parton

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

  Dolly Parton

  Eyebrows, Grandfather, Jezebel

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• Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

  Simone Weil

  Humans, Wretchedness

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

  Lin Yutang

  Mother, Believe, Doe

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

  Frank Herbert

  Powerful, Government, Judging

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.180, Penguin

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• The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

  Maimonides

  Drinking, Men, Class

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Weakness, Lawyer

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• Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there's no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.

  Paris Reidhead

  Past, Giving, Perfect

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• There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, People, Kind

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• Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Self, Rejection, Commit

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• You can't win with sin.

  Fraser Young

  Winning, Can't Win

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• God is always at war with sin

  G. Campbell Morgan

  War

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• The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

  Fraser Young

  Littles

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• Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Sky, Political

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• People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pride, People, Holiness

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• More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Envy, Despise, Cursed

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• The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  H. L. Mencken

  Son, Government, Long

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Seriousness

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• On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

  King James I

  Roots, Branches, Tobacco

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• Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

  Paul David Tripp

  Moral, Quadriplegics

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• I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.

  Gemma Galgani

  Blood, Offending, Giving

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