Sin Quotes

"There is often a sin of omission as well as of commission"

"What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics."

"In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin"

"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret."

"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."

"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"A vow is a snare for sin"

"Thousands, careless of the damning sin, / Kiss the book's outside who ne'er look within."

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"Sin is geographical."

"The worst sin... is... to be indifferent."

"We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue."

"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."

"The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion."

"And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost/ Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin."

"That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us."

"True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin."

"Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me."

"Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin."