Quotes of Trespass - somelinesforyou

“ Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ”

- Josh Billings

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

- Samuel Butler

“ Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ”

- Juvenal

“ Small crimes always precede great ones. ”

- Jean Racine

“ It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. ”

- Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

- Kin Hubbard

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

- John Dryden

“ So many laws argues so many sins. ”

- John Milton

“ It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same. ”

- St. Teresa of Avila

“ Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ”

- Voltaire

“ Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ”

- Hannah More

“ Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. ”

- Pasquier Quesnel

“ Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”

- James Madison

“ In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ He that wrongs any creature, sins against God, the creator. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound. ”

- Archibald Alexander

“ The heart that sins must sorrow. ”

- James Allen

“ I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”

- James Madison

“ Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it, one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off. ”

- Matthew

“ Some sins do bear their privilege on earth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. ”

- Bible

“ Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. ”

- Orson Welles

“ It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. ”

- Theodor Herzl
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