Sin Quotes

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.

But the first thing next morning we reflected If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

A secular society always feels uncomfortable with the moral imagination associated with the seven deadly sins. The Enlightenment replaced the idea of sin, which is deemed to be an offense against God, with the idea of crime, which is an offense against other people. But the rationalists still shared with religion the belief that individuals […]

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his (Lucifer’s) ruin.

The London Times once asked a number prominent people to write essays on the topic, What’s Wrong with the World. Gilbert K. Chesterton’s reply is the shortest and most to the point in history: Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely,

In a world whose motto has become ‘You mustn’t blame yourself’, sin has been replaced by sickness. Once upon a time there were seven deadly sins. They were called deadly because they led to spiritual death and therefore to damnation. The seven sins were (and are): lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride. Now […]