SIN QUOTES
quotations about sin
Is it a small thing for sin thus to affect the whole creation? The garden of Gethsemane knows, and Calvary can tell, how sin hath affected even the great Creator. Bread of life, why wast thou hungry? Fountain of life, why wast thou thirsty? Why wast thou a man of sorrows, O thou Consolation of Israel? Thou glory of the human race, wherefore wast thou a reproach of men, and despised of the people? The visage was more marred than any man, and thy form than the sons of men. Sin nailed thee to the cross; sin stabbed thee to the heart; sin, like a thick impenetrable cloud, eclipsed thy Father's countenance to thy disconsolate soul; sin laid thee in a grave, O thou resurrection and the life!
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On the Great Evil of Sin", Select Essays, Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
Though your sins are like scarlet,
They will be made as white as snow;
Though they are as red as crimson cloth,
They will become like wool.
BIBLE
Isaiah 1:18
When we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE
The Pastoral Symphony
Counting other people's sins does not make you a saint.
ANONYMOUS
O, fie, fie, fie!
Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
ROBERT LOWRY
"Nothing But the Blood of Jesus"
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
BIBLE
John 8:7
They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while
THE KILLERS
"When You Were Young", Sam's Town
Think gently of the erring:
Oh! do not thou forget,
However darkly stained by sin
He is thy brother yet.
JULIA CARNEY
"Think Gently of the Erring"
Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it, one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off.
MATTHEW HENRY
The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry with Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
PAULA POUNDSTONE
attributed, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
W. H. AUDEN
"Hell", A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
The damage is done
And I feel diseased
I'm down on my knees
And I need forgiveness
Someone to bear witness
To the goodness within
Beneath the sin
Although I may flirt
With all kinds of dirt
To the point of disease
Now I want release
From all this decay
Take it away
DEPECHE MODE
"To Have and To Hold"
If we don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing.
ANONYMOUS
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Opera Omnia
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER
The Holy State and the Profane State
Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.
E.J. DIONNE, JR.
The War Against Public Life