quotations about sin
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
AESCHYLUS
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Eumenides
How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE
Eloise to Abelard
I don't really care whether people think I've succumbed to a life of sin, I know myself and my life, and I know that I'm healthier than I ever was when I was a "good" Christian.
DANIELLE HILBORN
"Hate the sinner", Daily Californian, September 1, 2017
Sin is a slippery slope, and even the most pious of us, once we've taken those first tentative steps toward sin, find it difficult to turn back.
ROGER CARPENTER
"The Story of Sin (1975) - The Blu Review", We Are Movie Geeks, August 10, 2017
For if every sin were now visited with manifest punishment, nothing would seem to be reserved for the final judgment; on the other hand, if no sin received now a plainly divine punishment, it would be concluded that there is no divine providence at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
It does not matter how long we live, how exemplary our lives may be, or how we may strive to obey the laws of God; the devil will from time to time put evil thoughts into our minds. Thieves never break in to rob an empty house, but where much treasure is laid up. So it is with the devil; he will assault the heart of the true Christian from nineteen to ninety-five. Men have gone through life as humble, pure, and perfect Christians, as far as their friends could see, and whose very failings leaned to virtue's side; but if anyone could have known their thoughts, the hourly and daily striving with the evil one, how different the picture would have been. I read an account of a devout old Christian bishop, who said that on going to bed he always repeated the Lord's prayer over and over again 'till he fell asleep, to keep evil thoughts out of his mind; and of another good old bishop, who said he had fought all his life against bad desires, thoughts, and temptations, &c. If such is the case, that the devil will keep assaulting Christians all their journey here below, how necessary it is for one and all to be on their guard, and not to be taken unawares. The devil is a splendid judge of character, and soon finds out the failing or besetting sin of anyone, and with that he will tempt him. God only helps those who help themselves, so watch the evil one during all your waking hours, and pray to God to give you strength to conquer him, and He most surely will. Be not desponding; when wicked thoughts (of whatever kind, no matter how bad) come into your mind, it matters not how often, if you repel them at once you are not responsible for them. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you, I believe we are taught in the Bible.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Sinning in Thought", Short Essays
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
When the sinner hath used his liberty to repent, and God hath used his prerogative to pardon, the sin which hath been, is as if it had not been.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
I find that the devil often makes use of the confession of sin to stir up again the very sin confessed into new exercise, so that I am afraid to dwell upon the confession.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE
The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev Robert Murray M'Cheyne
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places -- whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest -- where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Young Goodman Brown
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
FRANCIS CHAN
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
If a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stranger in a Strange Land
All the sinners, all who are
in torment are my brothers and sisters.
Who is there in this world of
sin, male or female, who has not committed sin?
Let alone us: Those who are
said to be the saviours of
sinners are themselves sullied of sin.
KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM
"Sin", Rebel and Other Poems
In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
speech, February 22, 1842
On the determinist hypothesis an omnipotent God could have prevented all sin by creating us with better natures and in more favourable surroundings.... Hence we should not be responsible for our sins to God.
J. M. E. MCTAGGART
Some Dogmas of Religion
Past sins, if you repent of them, whiten you. They made a great psalmist out of David, a faithful believer out of the prostitute Rahab, a zealous apostle out of the persecutor Saul. I have been a loved preacher and writer with a particular vocation. My sermons and books would not have had the same quality without my past of anarchy, vice, and violent atheism.
RICHARD WURMBRAND
If Prison Walls Could Speak
There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Young Goodman Brown
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
THOMAS MERTON
No Man Is an Island
By our sinful falls -- the powers of the soul are weakened; the strength of grace is decayed; our evidences for heaven are blotted; fears and doubts in the soul are raised (will God once more pardon this scarlet sin, and show mercy to this wretched soul?); the corruptions in the heart are more advantaged and confirmed; and the conscience of a man after falls is the more enraged or the more benumbed.
THOMAS BROOKS
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices