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Sin Quotes

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."

John Bunyan, English Clergyman

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin."

Josiah Stamp, British Businessman

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

Veronica Franco, Italian Poet

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

"A fallen man is he who has lost the glory of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Sin, Fallen, Glory, God, Loss

"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."

Thomas Campbell, Scottish Poet

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

Frederick Locker-Lampson, English Poet

Sin, Ugly, World

"The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin."

William Gurnall, English Author

"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."

John Ruskin, English Writer

"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

"For a married woman to flirt is a sin."

Anna Held, Polish Entertainer

"It's the fall of mankind that resulted in a sin filled atmosphere."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Sin, Fall, Mankind, Atmosphere

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

John Flavel, English Clergyman

"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."

Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

Sin, Wickedness, World

"The Sin against God's Law Resulted in the Fall of Man."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Sin, God'sLaw, FallOfMan, Spirituality

"I know what sin is."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

"Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin."

John Webster, English Playwright

"Really to sin you have to be serious about it."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

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

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

"The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in."

Norma McCorvey, American Celebrity

"Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Sin, Man, Pleasure, God

"It's a sin to be tired."

Kate Moss, English Model

"Fear the sword of sin, it leads to death of the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Sin, Fear, Sword, Death

"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

Hannah More, English Writer

Sin, Opera, Punishment

"The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."

Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian

"I was told I had an overabundance of original sin."

Susan Sarandon, American Actress

"There's no such thing as an original sin."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher

"Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone."

Frank Dane, American Humorist

"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."

Alice Walker, American Author

Sin, Violence, Writing

"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

"The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed."

DeWitt Clinton, American Politician

Sin, Confession, Secrecy, Will

"Vanity is my favourite sin."

Al Pacino, American Actor

"There is no sin except stupidity."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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

Georges Bernanos, French Author

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

Max Muller, German Educator

"Sin is geographical."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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