Quotes about Sin
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
— Karl Barth
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
— Martin Luther
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
— St. Augustine
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
— CS Lewis
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
— Jim Elliot
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
— John Bunyan
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
— John Owen
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
— St. Thomas Aquinas