Quotes on Sin

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

I am on fire within._x000D_ There comes no murmur of reply._x000D_ What is it that will take away my sin,_x000D_ And save me lest I die?

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.