Quotes of Sin - somelinesforyou

“ I am a man more sinned against than sinning. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end. ”

- Talmud

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

- St. Augustine

“ These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil. ”

- Kara Vichko

“ Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. ”

- Samuel Butler

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

- Rudyard Kipling

“ He that falls into sin is a man; who grieves at it, is a saint; who boasteth of it, is a devil. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them. ”

- Kin Hubbard

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

- John Bunyan

“ She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. ”

- John Dryden

“ Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest. ”

- Cecil J. Sharpe

“ In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ”

- Herman Melville

“ The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. ”

- Geoffrey Fisher

“ Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin is a pleasure. ”

- Lord Byron

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

- Georges Bernanos

“ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. ”

- Robert Irvine

“ It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. ”

- Mary Baker Eddy

“ Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. ”

- Piers Paul Read

“ The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The wages of sin are unreported. ”

- Unknown

“ Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves. ”

- Anne Baxter

“ We have all our vices, and the bestIs he who with the fewest is oppressed. ”

- Horace

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

- Hannah More
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