Quotes about Sin

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.

That's why my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

Think of a sinner who is sinking in the abyss; listen to his cry of anguish when with his last groan he vindicates the justice his life has mocked and says: It is self-inflicted

Kierkegaard says: "An ethic which ignores sin is an absolutely idle science.

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self; and so terrible the power of evil in its constantly growing strength, till it casts out all fear of God or care for man.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

The truth was written upon us, as they say men's sins are written on their bones so that when they die their wicked deeds can be read as if written upon parchment.