Quotes by category:Sin

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, can... by Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

sin honor enthusiasm

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

bless devil sin

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

discipleship avoiding sin

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

isolated sin persons

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not c... by Dillon Burroughs

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

Dillon Burroughs

causes sin deeds

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

conquest opinion sin

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimina... by Desmond Tutu

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

discrimination sin doe

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to tempta... by Desmond Tutu

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

sin temptation people

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

unbelief sin

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

sin humility way

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns... by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

sin kindness religion

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of t... by Don Paterson

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

accused righteous sin

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

peace-with-god sin believe

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Donatella Versace

catholic sin limits

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

strategy sin prayer

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

sin real inspirational

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

Dorothy L. Sayers

bones care sin

Your sins are what make you fantastic. It's what makes you alive. You should wear your sins on your sleeve. You should be trying to top your sins on a daily basis.

alive sin trying

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's... by Dorothy Day

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

godlike sin men

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Dorothy L. Sayers

sin sloth parent