Sin in its ordinary progress first deceives, next hardens, and then destroys.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Sin is the great element of hell, and where it exists heaven cannot be. Its triumphs are deeper than those of time, and more terrible than death. It has swept over the moral world, more glorious than the physical, and blighted by the beautiful and desecrated the holy. It has scattered abroad and afar the seeds of envy, war, lust, intemperence, murder, and all abomination and iniquity. It has drawn man aside from innocence and rectitude, and he has gone forth from the joy of Eden with a bowed head and a burning heart; and, worse than all, it has spread a veil athwart his moral vision, and alienated him from his Maker.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
- Look on Sin and loathe it;
- With minds loathing it,
- Then will ye make
- An end of Misery.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, Iti-Vuttaka
Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.
If one could wallow amid filth for half a life and then wash himself clean in a day, then sin would be no worse than dirt on the hands which water can cleanse in a minute. Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The great cheat and delusion set before every generation is simply this tradition, that there is anything like real substantial pleasure in sin.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
No sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Remorse withers the succulent fruits of sin.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Sin is the exact opposite of love. Love means harmony; sin, discord. Love is constructive; sin, destructive. Love clings to God as a Father, as Jesus did. Sin would murder God if it could, as it murdered Jesus on Calvary.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it."
DAVID SEDARIS, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
That purple-lined palace of sweet sin.
The man who sins and then repents deserves a well-twisted rope at the gallows.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
- He that hath sinned
- In body, word, or thought,
- Or in anything
- That is called sinful,
- Doing not that which is righteous,
- But doing much that is unrighteous--
- This fool after the dissolution of the body,
- Shall go to perdition.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, Iti-Vuttaka
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