Quotes about Sin

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals I'm available to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.

If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

How pitiful it must be when the flesh gains dominion. Sin has slain the spirit:

Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.