Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart. Votes: 3
Abdullah ibn MubarakSins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you. Votes: 3
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaSins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. Votes: 3
Myrtle ReedSins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. Votes: 3
Thomas SherlockSin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people. Votes: 3
Corey TaylorSins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust. Votes: 3
Piers Paul ReadBe strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it Votes: 3
Anamika MishraAll sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Votes: 2
Cesare PaveseAll sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. Votes: 2
W. H. AudenOnce a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Votes: 2
Marlene DietrichWhen I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. Votes: 2
Hilaire BellocWho conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins. Votes: 0
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThere are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure. Votes: 0
George Horace LorimerOver the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. Votes: 0
Hilary MantelOh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollPloutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins ! Votes: 0
Theognis of MegaraTerrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire. Votes: 0
Fethullah GulenJust because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven. Votes: 0
Boonaa MohammedCharity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. Votes: 0
Hugh KingsmillOur past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies. Votes: 0
Beatriz Fitzgerald FernandezIn painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. Votes: 0
Robert GennThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaSin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinGovernment never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins. Votes: 0
Tony SnowWe cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins. Votes: 0
Leonard RavenhillThe Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. Votes: 0
Nicolas Gomez DavilaI have saved by grace. My sins are forgiven. This is my greatest gratitude. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaCommunism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerWomen keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. Votes: 0
Cornelia Otis SkinnerAs somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. Votes: 0
Hugh LeonardGolf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0
James Barrett RestonGolf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0
James RestonAs charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. Votes: 0
Sir Fulke GrevilleI was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together. Votes: 0
Michelle BacheletThe imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins. Votes: 0
Sarah StrohmeyerGod-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it. Votes: 0
Phil RobertsonRemorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacCertainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter. Votes: 0
Eric AltermanThere aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningA large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerI have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesThese holes are our sins. And the waves are God's love, washing away our sins. Votes: 0
Rachelle AyalaYou and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonSometimes when he touches me . i feel as though all my sins have been forgiven. Votes: 0
Julianne MacLeanWe should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonNo child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. Votes: 0
John BunyanYou must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. Votes: 0
Sam LevensonWhen nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. Votes: 0
William CowperConsolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. Votes: 0
Czeslaw MiloszWomen will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonGod may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonCapitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyGreat is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. Votes: 0
Thomas FullerMost people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsOf the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. Votes: 0
Michael PollanToo many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. Votes: 0
John PiperJesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. Votes: 0
Philip YanceyMake tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled. Votes: 0
Ibn Taymiyyah...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others. Votes: 0
Anne PerryIs not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation? Votes: 0
William E. GladstoneThere are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial Votes: 0
Robert MacArthurGod does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. Votes: 0
Robert IrvineJust as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986 Votes: 0
Neal A MaxwellIt appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins. Votes: 0
Cyril of AlexandriaOn tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. Votes: 0
King James IGo to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! Votes: 0
David MitchellGood works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ... Votes: 0
Margaret OliphantThe soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. Votes: 0
Victor HugoAnxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. Votes: 0
Tryon EdwardsAt the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. Votes: 0
Josemaria EscrivaMaybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukCease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins. Votes: 0
Aisha bint Abi BakrWe are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins. Votes: 0
Joseph PrinceWhen devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows Votes: 0
William ShakespeareBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceWhen the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleHe who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. Votes: 0
OvidGod is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggOften even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. Votes: 0
HesiodIndian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind. Votes: 0
Forrest CarterAphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeThe list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics Votes: 0
Jeane J. KirkpatrickPsychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. Votes: 0
Karl KrausKnown to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonWealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. Votes: 0
R. A. TorreyThe Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. Votes: 0
Saint PatrickGluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival. Votes: 0
Henry FairlieJesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Votes: 0
Jules FeifferWe Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggPeople can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin. Votes: 0
Jeaniene FrostOver-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents. Votes: 0
Richard CondonTreat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it. Votes: 0
Rachel JankovicMost importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8 Votes: 0
Thomas Nelson PublishersThe sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusI have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. Votes: 0
E. L. DoctorowOverheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." Votes: 0
Robert BreaultIt is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past. Votes: 0
Henry B. EyringSo preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee. Votes: 0
Martin LutherI am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve. Votes: 0
Brennan ManningBut he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more! Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisThere is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men. Votes: 0
Thomas BrooksLike most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. Votes: 0
Jane SmileyOh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither. Votes: 0
John WebsterOnly saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints. Votes: 0
Peter KreeftThat's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. Votes: 0
Walter M. Miller Jr.That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. Votes: 0
Walter M. Miller, Jr.Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. Votes: 0
John DrydenHow heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more. Votes: 0
Osman WelelaSo far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness! Votes: 0
Bernard of ClairvauxHow extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. Votes: 0
V. S. PritchettSome sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him Votes: 0
Boonaa MohammedTherefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. Votes: 0
Walter LangConfess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages in Jesus Name. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaWe can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonWhen we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Votes: 0
Karl BarthThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. Votes: 0
MoliereThey flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeHe who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiDon't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You Votes: 0
Angelica HopesJesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisO who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? Votes: 0
Juana Inés de la CruzI'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. Votes: 0
Grace JonesWe are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross. Votes: 0
Jim CaviezelIt was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there. Votes: 0
Franklin GrahamForgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. Votes: 0
Jack KerouacWe who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovThe further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you. Votes: 0
Clive OwenI am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me. Votes: 0
Genghis KhanIf you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you Votes: 0
Genghis KhanThe main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. Votes: 0
John H. GerstnerSometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaThe main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. Votes: 0
John GerstnerDespite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisWe have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. Votes: 0
George EliotThe sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead Votes: 0
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaTheir daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them. Votes: 0
Judith Henry WallI call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green. Votes: 0
Gardner DickinsonTrying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is. Votes: 0
Earl SweatshirtFear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself! Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibIt is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others. Votes: 0
D. A. CarsonThe scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being. Votes: 0
James G. FrazerPride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleIt may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins Votes: 0
Augustus Hopkins StrongO God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin, Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughThere are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherPride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. Votes: 0
John StottI consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins. Votes: 0
Antonio Sabato, Jr.That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins. Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichYour sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart! Votes: 0
Pope FrancisIf Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins. Votes: 0
Robert Murray M'CheyneThere is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner... Votes: 0
Teju ColeI'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Votes: 0
Warren ZevonIt is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Votes: 0
Karl BarthThe devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil. Votes: 0
Marcus EremitaThe Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisGod shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins. Votes: 0
Oliver D. CrispIf the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it. Votes: 0
Mark LawrenceOur deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less. Votes: 0
Dillon BurroughsGod buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomWe are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareI'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareAs long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear. Votes: 0
Rabbi IshmaelIt is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaI have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear. Votes: 0
Benjamin MartinYou do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been. Votes: 0
Tim McGrawOne of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonI will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again. Votes: 0
Walter ScottI pray to you God to forgive me from all my sins, to allow me to glorify you in every possible way. Votes: 0
Mohamed AttaThe more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. Votes: 1 Ninon de L'Enclos
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Votes: 5 Karl Barth
I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. Votes: 1 Kurt Vonnegut
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. Votes: 2 Saint Teresa of Avila
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. Votes: 1 Alice Walker
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. Votes: 8 Dave Mustaine
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death. Votes: 1 Ray Comfort
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. Votes: 4 Myrtle Reed
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. Votes: 4 Karl Kraus
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. Votes: 1 Edwin Hubbel Chapin