I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Vanity is my favourite sin.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
Humanity is the sin of God.
One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
My grandma was really sick when I was working on 'Sin Nombre' and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.