Sin Quotes

Purity is about having the humility to open ourselves to the will of God. Instead of asking how far we can go toward sin, we begin to ask how far we can go toward love.

Ignorance is Man's greatest sin.

Over and in, last call for sin;
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done.

My eyes lead me to sin. Shall I rip them out right now, Lord? Or should I just pick and choose which commandments I should obey, like the rest of your followers?

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy.

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do—and I have done it—and God forgives me for it.

Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum. With love for mankind and hatred of sins.

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.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.