Best sweet & sin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.”

Spirit Hours Sin Sweet Comfort Temptation Distress

Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers

“The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.”

Dream Fighting Sin Sweet Faithful Sunshine Salmon Darts Absolution

Author:Coventry Patmore

“Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.”

Love Soul Sometimes Heaven Sin Love Is Hell Sweet Bitter Cells Gates Honey Clovers Dregs Passwords

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus the giver of eternal life; Jesus the keeper of our undying souls; Jesus the hearer of our prayers; Jesus the chastener who can turn crosses into crowns; and Jesus the wonder-worker who changes us into eternal likeness unto Himself! These flowers will keep sweet till heaven dawns.”

Soul Turns Jesus Heaven Prayer Sin Wonder Son Sweet Flower Kings Eternal Garden Crosses Seven Workers Dawn Crowns Our Prayers Giver Eternal Life Keepers Bouquets Fragrant Flowers

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.”

Humans Has Beens Joy Religion Passion Natural Sin Race Christianity Sweet Affection Human Race Gladness

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!”

Spirit Prayer Sin Half Youth Sweet Comfort Temptation Untruth

Book:Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick

Source: Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick

“Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.”

World Sin Sweet Angel Broke Chords Harmonious

Author:Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

Christ Sin Sweet Bitter Sinner Sanctification

Author:Thomas Watson

“Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings

“Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?”

Art Sin Sweet Type Enjoyment

Author:Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

“Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.”

Sin Sweet Heavy Bitter Reckoning

Book:The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith

Source: The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith

“Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.”

Knows Men Way Sin Hell Sweet Drink Fairs Ruins Cups Poison Fascinated Slaughter Liver Harlots Bewitched

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.”

Song Sin Sweet Catholic Teeth Polish Sweet Tooth

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.”

“Black as night, sweet as sin.”

Night Black Sin Sweet Coffee

Book:American Gods

Source: American Gods

“Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin”

Ifs Knows Soul Mother Song Evil Sin Sweet Rain Embrace Fruit My Soul Chill

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”

Lying Sin Cities Sweet Yesterday Odor Rotting

Author:Hilary Mantel

“How long till our powers are back? (Kat) A few hours according to last time. (Sin) Sweet, and we have how long till the bitches awake? (Kat) Less than two. (Sin) Can you say screwed, boys and girls? Yes, I thought you could. (Kat)”

Long Two Lasts Girl Hours Sin Boys Sweet Awake Last Time Boy And Girl

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.”

Littles Sin Lord Sweet Kissing Lips Bitter Bliss

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

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