An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Sin is geographical.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?
No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.
Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you love, from watching TV to hanging out with favorite people.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
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.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
There is no sin except stupidity.
It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism.
You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.
It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
