Sin Quotes - Page 5

• He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Morning, Sunday, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Literature, Serious

  "Peer Gynt". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Button-Moulder, Act V, Scene VII, 1867.

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• Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

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• There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Immunity, Consequence

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• Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

  Francis Quarles

  Eye, Soul, Firsts

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• For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Two, Pay

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reality, Mankind, Angry

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Weight, May

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. February 1, 2014.

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• He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Stones, Not Judging

  "Gospel of John". 8:7,

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• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Shadow, Ifs

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Religious, Doe

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper, p. 59 (July 7, 1838), 1959.

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• The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Philosopher, Moral

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Patience, Work

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• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Sins Not, Forsaken

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• There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

  Roger Caras

  Inspirational, Pain, Fear

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• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Self

  William Law (2001). “An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

  Paula Poundstone

  Funny, Time, Taken

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• Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

  George MacDonald

  Vengeance, Executioners, Bounds

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• Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your life it is because your soul is giving consent to it, and you are retaining it. Let it go. Cast it out and let God have His way in your life.

  John G. Lake

  Letting Go, Giving, Soul

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.138, Whitaker House

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• One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Real, Shame, Wells

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 76, 1954.

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• To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

  George MacDonald

  Cleansing, Baths, Ashamed

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.228, Regent College Publishing

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• Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

  Johann Arndt

  Heart, Suffering, Spirit

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• Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fantasy, Repentance, Opposition

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.46

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• I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Feels, Know How, Knows

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 3

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• Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Spiritual, Achievement, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2014). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life: Personal, Practical, and Powerful--An Invitation to Live Life at Its Most Blessed”, p.104, Barbour Publishing

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