quotations about sin
There are worse things than a lie ... I have found ... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Doctor Wortle's School
If one could wallow amid filth for half a life and then wash himself clean in a day, then sin would be no worse than dirt on the hands which water can cleanse in a minute. Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is sinful to have enmity against aught but sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
PETER KREEFT
Jesus-Shock
When deep slumber falls, remembered sins
Chafe the sore heart with fresh pain, and no
Welcome wisdom meets within.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
When I sin, I sin real good
When I sin, I sin for sure
MISFITS
"Devil's Whorehouse"
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Forgive me, Lord. I know I ain't living right; got to feed the block.
JAY WAYNE JENKINS
"Soul Survivor"
Sin is of a contagious and spreading nature, and the human heart is but too susceptible of the infection. This may be ascribed to several causes, and to one in particular which is applicable to the present case, that the seeing of sin frequently committed, must gradually abate that horror which we ought to have of it upon our minds, and which serves to keep us from yielding to its solicitations.
JOHN WITHERSPOON
A Serious Inquiry Into the Nature and Effects of the Stage
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Devil's Disciple
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Compound for sins they are inclin'd to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Hudibras
God save us everyone
Will we burn
Inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of hand
The sins of our tongue
The sins of our father
The sins of our young
LINKIN PARK
"The Requiem"
It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong -- although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by -- come back to us with bitterness.
BRAM STOKER
"The Rose Prince"
Sin we have explain'd away;
Unluckily, the sinners stay.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
"Blackberries"
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
JEROME K. JEROME
"A Man of Habit"
It comes down to this.
Your kiss.
Your fist.
And your strain.
It get's under my skin.
Within.
Take in the extent of my sin
NINE INCH NAILS
"Sin", Pretty Hate Machine
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
PET SHOP BOYS
"It's a Sin", Actually
Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.
ÉMILE ZOLA
La Curée