Quotes and Sayings About Sin
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
-- John Ruskin -
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
-- John Ruskin -
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
-- John Steinbeck -
God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
-- John Stott -
In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
-- John the Apostle -
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
-- John the Baptist -
Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [..].
-- John Vaillant -
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
-- John Vanbrugh -
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.
-- John von Neumann -
It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.
-- John Walker Lindh -
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!
-- John Wolcot -
Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride
-- Jonathan Aitken -
Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!
-- Jonathan Edward Caldwell -
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
-- Jose Bergamin -
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
-- Jose Bergamin -
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
-- Jose Bergamin -
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
-- Jose Marti -
Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.
-- Jose Mujica -
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
-- Joseph Addison -
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
-- Joseph Alleine -
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.
-- Joseph Alleine -
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
-- Joseph Alleine -
If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.
-- Joseph Alleine -
Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us
-- Joseph Caryl -
Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.
-- Joseph Cook -
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
-- Joseph Epstein -
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
-- Joseph Epstein -
Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.
-- Joseph Hall -
It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
-- Joseph Hall
