Quotes about Sin
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
- Herman Melville
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
- JC Ryle
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
- John Donne
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
- John Milton
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.
- Polycarp
Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.
- Charles Spurgeon
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
- Charles Dickens
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
- Charles Spurgeon
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
- Teresa of Avila
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
- CS Lewis
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.
- Joyce Meyer