Sins Quotes

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

Faith, Passion, Guilty

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain

Martyrdom, Multitude, Covers

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

Charity, Multitude, Creates

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

Lost, Again, Found

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, God, Today

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu

Nature, May, Another

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

Woman, Her, Once

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert Hubbard

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Problem, Boredom

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas

Wise, Evil, Wrong

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.
Billy Graham

Heart, Jesus, Christ

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion, Cure

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge

God, Truth, Nothing

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Envy

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Angry, Mankind, Large

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
Saint Patrick

Heart, Lord, Opened

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

Religion, Family, Health

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Matthew Henry

Sometimes, Punishment, Trial

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler

Humor, Him, Enough

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Chuck Palahniuk

God, Give, Maybe

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Horace

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

Writing, Why, Reason

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings

Lord, Forgiven, Confess

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Thomas Fuller

Great, Difference, Frightened

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus

Good, Deeds, Remembered

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
Charles Stanley

Trust, Family, God

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Best, Simply

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