sin quotes

• A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [life/sin/spirit/thoughts]
• If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be! (Cesare Pavese) [life/feeling/sin]
• How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? (Alexander Pope) [sin/love]
• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? (Alexander Pope) [sin/parents]
• Many without punishment, none without sin. (John Ray) [punishment/sin]
• Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect. (Theodore Roosevelt) [human/sin/death/death]
• Sin is geographical. (Bertrand Russell) [sin]
• The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ( Seneca) [punishment/conscience/sin]
• It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. ( Seneca) [sin/knowledge/sin]
• Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us? (William Shakespeare) [sin/death/death]
• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue. (William Shakespeare) [temptation/sin/virtue]
• Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. (William Shakespeare) [sin]
• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (William Shakespeare) [sin/virtue]
• The worst sin... is... to be indifferent. (George Bernard Shaw) [sin]
• After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. (Henry David Thoreau) [sin]
• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror. (Simone Weil) [evil/suffering/sin/time]
• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. (Simone Weil) [time/think/sin/envy]
• When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. (Mae West) [remember/sin]
• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night. (Oscar Wilde) [eyes/sin/face/morning]
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [sin/civilization & progress/curiosity/sin]
• There is no sin except stupidity. (Oscar Wilde) [sin/stupidity]
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [soul & body/sin/action/pleasure]
• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. (Oscar Wilde) [care/kiss/sin]
• I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. (Mira Sorvino) [sin/guilt/people]
• “I personally think they've made a significant tactical error here, because they have attacked innocent civilians, primarily Muslims, ... It is a sin against Islam what they have done.” (Anderson Cooper) [think/sin]
• “Have you ever told a lie? Then you are a liar. How many murders do you have to commit to be a murderer? Just one. If you have told even one lie, that makes you a liar. The Bible warns that all liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8). You may not think deceitfulness is a serious sin, but God does.” (Kirk Cameron) [willpower/think/sin/god]
• It's a sin to have your films not to make money. (Ellen Burstyn) [sin/money]
• The only sin is mediocrity. (Martha Graham) [sin]
• I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it? (Armand Assante) [sin]

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