The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Humanity is the sin of God.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

I know what sin is.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

It is a sin to be poor.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.