Sin Quotes

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Silence, Makes

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Society, Stupidity, Guilty

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami Vivekananda

Greatest, Soul, Others

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

Thankful, Sorrow, Republican

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

Stupidity, Except

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

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

Soul, Honor, Covet

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Fall, Rise, Virtue

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

Dangerous, Temptation, Virtue

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Good, Girl

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, God, Today

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw

Hate, Worst, Toward

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

Faith, Christ, Sinner

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda

Power, Greatest, Cannot

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Live, Long, Social

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human, Him, Eyes

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
Annie Dillard

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West

Long, Few, Break

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy Graham

Pride, American, Lifestyle

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

Life, Another, Against

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
Dwight L. Moody

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

Nature, Great, Poor

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

God, Son, Suffering

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Bill Maher

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Edmund Burke

Lie, Tools, Handle

Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes

Courage, Human, Earth

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
Joel Osteen

Gay, Says, Scripture

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