quotations about sin
If God had pardoned Sin without any amends, God would have been thought to countenance Sin: and Man would have thought Sin no great matter.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
One carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO & CHUCK HOGAN
The Fall
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
MARCEL PROUST
Within a Budding Grove
Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.
JOHN R. RICE
The Ruin of a Christian
Sin in its ordinary progress first deceives, next hardens, and then destroys.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and hope.
PLATO
The Republic
The wages of sin are unreported.
ANONYMOUS
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
So sin is a theological concept -- it is fundamentally about our relationship with God. Sin distances us from God and the life God intends for us.
JEFFREY HEYDEN-KAYE
"Let's talk about sin, shall we?", Bashaw Star, August 10, 2017
Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblems
To make it evident that Sin is a great evil, we need but reflect a little on the nature and effects of it. If we inquire into the nature of Sin, we shall find that it is founded in the subversion of the dignity, and defacing the beauty of human nature: And that it consists in the darkness of our understanding, the depravity of our affections, and the feebleness and impotence of the will.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Sin first is pleasing, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.
ROBERT LEIGHTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The damage a man does to another, he may make amends for by restitution or recompense, but sin cannot be taken away by recompense, for that were to make the liberty to sin a thing vendible. But sins may be pardoned to the repentent either gratis or upon such penalty as God is pleased to accept.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
Sin is the failure of a fallible creature; and reversible by repentance.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.
BREE DESPAIN
The Dark Divine
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
THOMAS MOORE
Lalla Rookh
If God didn't forgive sinners, Heaven would be empty.
ANONYMOUS
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
I ought to have a number of scriptures marked to bring sin to remembrance. I ought to make use of all bodily affliction, domestic trial, frowns of Providence on myself, house, parish, church, or country, as calls from God to confess sin.
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE
The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev Robert Murray M'Cheyne