Quotes about Theft
The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.
- Stephen Covey
Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. For what thief will abide a thief? not even a rich thief, one stealing through want. Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing, and a pamperedness of iniquity. For I stole that, of which I had enough, and much better. Nor cared I to enjoy what I stole, but joyed in the theft and sin itself.
- St. Augustine
Unthankfulness is theft.
- Martin Luther
For in eating of the forbidden fruit our first parents committed an act of theft. Is it not then something more than a coincidence that we find a "thief" (yea, two thieves) connected with the second Tree also?
- AW Pink
Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
- Mark Twain
B Y AND BY, WHEN WE GOT UP, WE TURNED OVER THE TRUCK THE GANG had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars.
- Mark Twain
It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
- Anonymous
The robbers jumped into the road and tackled the traveler.
- Frank Peretti
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
- Albert Einstein
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
- GK Chesterton
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
- Abraham Kuyper