A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
Thomas Keneally

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.
Ron Chernow

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Hugh Leonard

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
Alphonsus Liguori

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
John Flavel

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
Archibald Alexander

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings