sin quotes

• Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. (Robert Burton) [sin/pleasure/willpower/excuse]
• In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity. (Jean Baudrillard) [state/sin]
• Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. (Robert Browning) [ignorance/sin]
• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. (Samuel Butler) [men/sin/idleness]
• If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. (Albert Camus) [sin/life/life/life]
• A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. (Miguel De Cervantes) [sin]
• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill) [government/willpower/sin/democracy]
• She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. (John Dryden) [danger/sin]
• Repentance is but want of power to sin. (John Dryden) [power/sin]
• One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/find/sin/opinion]
• The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sin/opinion]
• That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sin]
• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. (Thomas Fuller) [sin]
• Sin is whatever obscures the soul. (Andre Gide) [sin]
• To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. (David Hare) [god/sin]
• You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [sin/power/men/take]
• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [sin]
• He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin. ( Horace) [life/sin]
• Really to sin you have to be serious about it. (Henrik Ibsen) [sin]
• I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. (Samuel Johnson) [willpower/paper/sin/sorrow]
• A vow is a snare for sin. (Samuel Johnson) [vow/sin]
• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. (Rudyard Kipling) [love/sin]
• For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. (Rudyard Kipling) [sin]
• To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln) [sin/silence/men]
• Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. (Martin Luther) [sin/strongly/more/strongly]
• It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. (H. L. Mencken) [god/sin]
• It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. (H. L. Mencken) [sin/evil/mistake]
• Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. (Henry Miller) [sin/guilt/neurosis/knowledge]
• Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. (Henry Miller) [willpower/sin]
• From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [obedience/sin]
• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. (Ogden Nash) [people/sin/people/sin]

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