The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.
At one point, I left Mexico to continue my career globally, and a new star came about. He is known now as Myzteziz, but back then he was known as Mistico, and then Sin Cara when he joined WWE. I would have to say the fans, in their eyes, see a lot of similarities between us.
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
It's a sin to be tired.
And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.