S Quotes
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“Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.”
“Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.”
Source: Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
“Sin is a gravitation.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.”
Source: Redeployment
“Sin is a lustful state.”
“Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.”
Source: Seven Deadly Sins
“Sin is a measure of evil.”
Source: Shantaram
“Sin is a mirage, always overpromising and underdelivering.
The Enemy works in your life by luring and lying. He promises things he can't fulfill. He challenges God's truth. He attacks God's character and intentions.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: by participating directly and voluntarily in them; by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them; by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so; by protecting evil-doers. [1868]”
Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated
“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.”
Source: Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Study Guide 1
“Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.”
Source: Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
“Sin is a revolt against God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Sin is a shameful act.”
“Sin is a snare.”
“Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.”
Source: The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)
“Sin is a symptom of an empty space not being filled by God.”
Source: Heart Renovation: A Construction Guide to Godly Character
“Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live without the concept of sin, because sin is the technique of creating guilt in people.”
“Sin is a terrible fact, but at least it is matched by the consoling fact that God never rejects the sorrowing sinner. The modern world tries to explain sin away, deny the plain facts, and make vice and virtue synonyms. But it has no pity in its cold soul for sinners and no hope to offer the man or the woman who knows the sadness of sin and looks for comfort. It is left for the merciful, sin-crucified Christ to clasp the penitent sinner to His heart.”
Source: Fashionable Sin: A Modern Discussion of an Unpopular Subject
“Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.”
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.”
“Sin is all wrong doing.”
“Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature”
Source: Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
“Sin is arrogant schemes.”
“Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.”
Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks
“Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.”
“Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.”
“Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Sin is blatant mutiny against God.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Sin is cosmic treason”
Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“Sin is cosmic treason. Sin is treason against a perfectly pure Sovereign. It is an act of supreme ingratitude toward the One to whom we owe everything, to the One who has given us life itself. Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no to the righteousness of God. We are saying, “God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command me to do.”
Source: The Holiness of God
“Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.”
Source: Glory Road
“Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.”
Source: Glory Road
“Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.”
Source: Pollok's Course of Time
“Sin is deciding that a momentary pleasure is worth a lifetime of destruction. And if true pleasure is of such character that it never invites destruction, then sin destroys us for something that we never got.”
“Sin is destroyed in suffering.”
“Sin is destroyed through suffering.”
“Sin is destroyer to soul that sins.”
“Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.”
“Sin is essentially a departure from God.”
“Sin is etched into women's very form.
To the devil with her form, then.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“Sin is followed by shame. Repentance is followed by boldness.”
“Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.”
Source: The Boston Monday Lectures
“Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.”
“Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.”
“Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.”
“Sin is in, and so we begin.”