quotations about sin
For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
The first sin robbed heaven of some of its brightest ornaments, built the great state prison of hell, kindled its first fires, and awakened groans that never end.
J. BEAUMONT
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is sinful to have enmity against aught but sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.
BREE DESPAIN
The Dark Divine
Old sin makes new shame.
HAVELOCK THE DANE
The Lay of Havelock the Dane: Composed in the Reign of Edward I about AD 1280
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
When deep slumber falls, remembered sins
Chafe the sore heart with fresh pain, and no
Welcome wisdom meets within.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Forgive me, Lord. I know I ain't living right; got to feed the block.
JAY WAYNE JENKINS
"Soul Survivor"
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"
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
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
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
Sin we have explain'd away;
Unluckily, the sinners stay.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
"Blackberries"
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners
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
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
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"
Compound for sins they are inclin'd to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Hudibras