quotations about sin
The first sin robbed heaven of some of its brightest ornaments, built the great state prison of hell, kindled its first fires, and awakened groans that never end.
J. BEAUMONT
attributed, Day's Collacon
When I sin, I sin real good
When I sin, I sin for sure
MISFITS
"Devil's Whorehouse"
For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
It is sinful to have enmity against aught but sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Old sin makes new shame.
HAVELOCK THE DANE
The Lay of Havelock the Dane: Composed in the Reign of Edward I about AD 1280
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
When deep slumber falls, remembered sins
Chafe the sore heart with fresh pain, and no
Welcome wisdom meets within.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Forgive me, Lord. I know I ain't living right; got to feed the block.
JAY WAYNE JENKINS
"Soul Survivor"
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
JEROME K. JEROME
"A Man of Habit"
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
PET SHOP BOYS
"It's a Sin", Actually
Sin is of a contagious and spreading nature, and the human heart is but too susceptible of the infection. This may be ascribed to several causes, and to one in particular which is applicable to the present case, that the seeing of sin frequently committed, must gradually abate that horror which we ought to have of it upon our minds, and which serves to keep us from yielding to its solicitations.
JOHN WITHERSPOON
A Serious Inquiry Into the Nature and Effects of the Stage
Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.
ÉMILE ZOLA
La Curée
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners
Sin we have explain'd away;
Unluckily, the sinners stay.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
"Blackberries"
It comes down to this.
Your kiss.
Your fist.
And your strain.
It get's under my skin.
Within.
Take in the extent of my sin
NINE INCH NAILS
"Sin", Pretty Hate Machine
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Devil's Disciple
We all know that sin is attractive, some kinds to some people, other kinds to other people. Its attractiveness explains why we are so afraid of it and why we so often take toward it what seems to me a false attitude. This attitude we hear expressed in many ways. One of the commonest is the betrayal among good people of a certain envy of sinners. It suggests that the good people think the sinners have acquired something they would themselves like to have, or something they are obliged to deny themselves by their refusal to sin. The sinners know better. They know that sin is not worth the return it brings. They know that in itself it is a penalty without reference to the penalties it carries in its train.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Perquisites of Sin", Intimations
God save us everyone
Will we burn
Inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of hand
The sins of our tongue
The sins of our father
The sins of our young
LINKIN PARK
"The Requiem"