Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.
I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it's towards, aren't I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
