To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
David Hare

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

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

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville

Vanity is my favourite sin.
Al Pacino

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimke

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.
Mary Astell

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
Georges Bernanos

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Eason Jordan

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Frank Miller

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
Edwin Louis Cole

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