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 ZimmermannOver the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. Votes: 0
Hilary MantelThere are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure. Votes: 0
George Horace LorimerOh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollJust 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 KingsmillPloutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins ! Votes: 0
Theognis of MegaraIn painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. Votes: 0
Robert GennTerrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire. Votes: 0
Fethullah GulenOur past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies. Votes: 0
Beatriz Fitzgerald FernandezGovernment never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins. Votes: 0
Tony SnowThere 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. HeinleinThe imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins. Votes: 0
Sarah StrohmeyerI have saved by grace. My sins are forgiven. This is my greatest gratitude. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together. Votes: 0
Michelle BacheletAs charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. Votes: 0
Sir Fulke GrevilleAs somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. Votes: 0
Hugh LeonardCertainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter. Votes: 0
Eric AltermanWomen keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. Votes: 0
Cornelia Otis SkinnerGolf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0
James Barrett RestonGod-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it. Votes: 0
Phil RobertsonThe Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. Votes: 0
Nicolas Gomez DavilaRemorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacCommunism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerGolf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0
James RestonWe 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 RavenhillWomen will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonConsolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. Votes: 0
Czeslaw MiloszWhen nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. Votes: 0
William CowperGod may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMost people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsCapitalism: 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 FullerOf 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 TaymiyyahYou must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. Votes: 0
Sam Levenson...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others. Votes: 0
Anne PerryA 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 BorgesNo child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. Votes: 0
John BunyanYou 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 MacLeanThese holes are our sins. And the waves are God's love, washing away our sins. Votes: 0
Rachelle AyalaThere aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningWe should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonIndian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind. Votes: 0
Forrest CarterI have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. Votes: 0
E. L. DoctorowGod is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggThe sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusHe who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. Votes: 0
OvidOften even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. Votes: 0
HesiodMost importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8 Votes: 0
Thomas Nelson PublishersWhen the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleOverheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." Votes: 0
Robert BreaultAphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeGluttony 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 FeifferThere are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial Votes: 0
Robert MacArthurPeople can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin. Votes: 0
Jeaniene FrostIs not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation? Votes: 0
William E. GladstoneThe list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics Votes: 0
Jeane J. KirkpatrickThe Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. Votes: 0
Saint PatrickOver-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents. Votes: 0
Richard CondonWealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. Votes: 0
R. A. TorreyTreat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it. Votes: 0
Rachel JankovicKnown to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha Votes: 0
D. H. LawrencePsychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. Votes: 0
Karl KrausWe Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggWhen devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIt 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 IAt the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. Votes: 0
Josemaria EscrivaGo to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! Votes: 0
David MitchellMaybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukGood works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ... Votes: 0
Margaret OliphantAnxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. Votes: 0
Tryon EdwardsThe soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. Votes: 0
Victor HugoJust as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986 Votes: 0
Neal A MaxwellGod does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. Votes: 0
Robert IrvineCease 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 PrinceThe 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 WildeWe can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonSo preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee. Votes: 0
Martin LutherDon't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You Votes: 0
Angelica HopesConfess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages in Jesus Name. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaIt is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past. Votes: 0
Henry B. EyringI am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve. Votes: 0
Brennan ManningHe who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiBut he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more! Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisWhen we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Votes: 0
Karl BarthThere is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men. Votes: 0
Thomas BrooksThat's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. Votes: 0
Walter M. Miller, Jr.Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him Votes: 0
Boonaa MohammedFattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. Votes: 0
John DrydenThat's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. Votes: 0
Walter M. Miller Jr.How 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 ClairvauxOnly saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints. Votes: 0
Peter KreeftHow extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. Votes: 0
V. S. PritchettOh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither. Votes: 0
John WebsterLike most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. Votes: 0
Jane SmileyJesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisTherefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. Votes: 0
Walter LangPride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleIt 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. FrazerTrying 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 may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins Votes: 0
Augustus Hopkins StrongI call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green. Votes: 0
Gardner DickinsonI'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. Votes: 0
Grace JonesO who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? Votes: 0
Juana Inés de la CruzWe 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 KhanThe main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. Votes: 0
John H. GerstnerIf you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you Votes: 0
Genghis KhanSometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaDespite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisTheir daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them. Votes: 0
Judith Henry WallThe sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead Votes: 0
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaWe have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. Votes: 0
George EliotThe main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. Votes: 0
John GerstnerO God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin, Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughI consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins. Votes: 0
Antonio Sabato, Jr.I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Votes: 0
Warren ZevonThere are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThere is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner... Votes: 0
Teju ColeIf Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins. Votes: 0
Robert Murray M'CheyneThe devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil. Votes: 0
Marcus EremitaPride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. Votes: 0
John StottThe Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisIt is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Votes: 0
Karl BarthThat 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 FrancisGod buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomOur deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less. Votes: 0
Dillon BurroughsIf the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it. Votes: 0
Mark LawrenceGod shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins. Votes: 0
Oliver D. CrispI'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWe are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareAs 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 AvilaOne of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonYou do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been. Votes: 0
Tim McGrawI 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 have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear. Votes: 0
Benjamin MartinI pray to you God to forgive me from all my sins, to allow me to glorify you in every possible way. Votes: 0
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