You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the...

It was a sin. Kissing a guy who wasn’t betrothed to her was wrong in every way. Everyone knew that. It was haram. Forbidden. You would go to hell for that…

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Kuna vita za aina mbili zinazopiganwa hapa duniani: vita ya maisha na vita ya dhambi. Unaweza kushinda vita ya maisha (maisha ya raha) lakini ukashindwa vita ya dhambi (maisha ya laana). Kushinda vita ya dhambi...

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man’s rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

I don’t even understand the connection with ‘died for your sins’. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? ‘I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage’…

We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although...

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

You take evil for good. It’s a passing crisis. It’s the result of your illness, perhaps.- You do despise me! It’s simply that I don’t want to do good, I want to do evil, and...

Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which...

He who sleeps does not sin.

Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.

Poverty doesn’t say so much about God as it says about us.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.

I thought speakers didn’t believe in sin,” said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. “You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this...

The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice… Those who admit their own faults and above all, those who believe… A wholehearted trust in Amida Buddha gives peace of mind to...

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don’t want to know what causes dew.

The author says people are guilty of “wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

My eyes are my greatest sin.

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital ‘S,’ is not virtue – it’s faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

I’m here to tell you, there ain’t much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a bitch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt...

Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it’s the most effective antidote to sin.

Wealth without wisdom is equal to life without purpose

Sin leads to sure and certain downfall and hence we should abstain from sinful deeds.

Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy...

Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.

Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly...

We’re Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I’m not going to move in with you had have people think we’re living in sin. What sort of witness would...

You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone’s a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren’t enough to...

À cette heure, elle voulut le mal, le mal que personne ne commet, le mal qui allait emplir son existence vide et la mettre enfin dans cet enfer dont elle avait toujours peur.

Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply...

Your life is a witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or...

A man of logic is a man of sin.

Weight causes things on earth to fall–to remain grounded. What if the weight of sin holds the same purpose as physical weight? When I curl up on my sofa with God and his Word, that...

Nismo li možda tijekom vremena tumačili kršćanstvo suviše isključivo kao religiju osjetljivu za grijeh te u skladu s tim premalo osjetljivu za trpljenje?

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized...

. . . Most falls aren’t free — there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Don’t pity this sinful world!Just pity those who made it so!

Why should I put myself out for you?” and it was Anne’s eyes as she pushed her hair back and looked up at him on the lawn of her house where she planted crocuses. It...

Humanity is the sin of God.