sin Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about sin.
“Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.”
- Isaac Barrow
“Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.”
- Denise McCluggage
“Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.”
- E. Stanley Jones
“Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
- Cyril Connolly
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”
- Howard Dean
“There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.”
- Doris Lessing
“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.”
- Brandeis, Louis D.
“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.”
- Kelsey Grammer
“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
- Anatole France