Quotes about sin

My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent.

If we say that we have no sin

We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

Why then, belike, we must sin,

And consequently die.

Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Accursed Faustus, wretch, what hast thou done?

I do repent, and yet I do despair.

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.

What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

"Well," said Casy, "for anybody else it was a mistake, but if you think it was a sin—then it's a sin. A fella builds his own sins right up from the groun'."

You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

Man is not entirely an animal. He aspires to a spiritual vision, which is the vision of the whole truth. This gives him the highest delight, because it reveals to him the deepest harmony that exists between him and his surroundings. It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realisation, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from our God, setting up disunion and the arrogance of exclusiveness. For sin is not one mere action, but it is an attitude of life which takes for granted that our goal is finite, that our self is the ultimate truth, and that we are not all essentially one but exist each for his own separate individual existence.

"Fool!" said the Professor, who had been growing very hot, and was now at the boil. "Do you imply that the sins of the mind are trivial and the sins of the flesh important? What kind of an idiot are you?"

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.

There never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.