Famous Quotes - Tags - Sin
- ...there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out... More
- A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. More
- A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. More
- A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people... More
- A sinne, nor shame, nor losse of maidenhead, More
- A ward, and still in bonds, one day
I stole abroad;
It was high spring, and all the... More
- A “sin” is something which is not necessary. More
- After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. More
- Ah, why should all mankind
For one man’s fault thus guiltless be condemned,
If... More
- all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners—miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians... More
- All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. More
- And what’s the bother about sin?
It doesn’t matter so
Whether a woman’s... More
- As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore. More
- But something may be done that we will not,
And sometimes we are devils to... More
- But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the... More
- but when lust
By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
But most by lewd and... More
- By-gones are by-gones, as Chartres, when he was dying, said of his sins: let us look forwards. More
- Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of... More
- Come, ye Sinners, poor and wretched,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore.
Jesus ready stands... More
- Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. More
- Consideration like an angel came
And whipped th’ offending Adam out of him. More
- Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning. More
- Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the... More
- Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or... More
- Few love to hear the sins they love to act. More
- Fie, ‘tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason... More
- For God’s sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it,
And do it for the pleasure. More
- For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
Of man is made against... More
- For vileyns sinful dedes make a cherl. More
- Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. More
- Full of her long white arms and milky skin
He had a thousand times remembered sin. More
- Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man! More
- God alone is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it is a strange thing that there is... More
- God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive: if a woman calls a man to her... More
- Greasing the bodies of adulterers
Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
The sin. The sin. More
- Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
Infatuate of the flesh upon the... More
- He had fathered every folly, every sin. No goat knew gluttony like his, no cat had felt his... More
- He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. More
- He was against it. More
- He who sins easily, sins less. The very power
Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. More
- Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,
The seasons’ difference. More
- How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being... More
- I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite;
But black sin hath... More
- I am a man more sinned against than sinning. More
- I am no longer at war with sin,
working daily with my little shield and paddle
against... More
- I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them;... More
- I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. More
- I don’t want to listen; your words sound like the truth but the truth is probably a sin. More
- I heard a good one at Toulouse of a woman who had passed through the hands of some soldiers:... More
- I know my state, both full of shame and scorn,
Conceived in sin, and unto labor... More
- I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the woodside; reminding me... More
- I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and... More
- I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th’ infected world,
If they will... More
- I will weep for thee,
For this revolt of thine methinks is like
Another fall of man. More
- Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. More
- If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been... More
- If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying... More
- If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
His armory would quickly be empty. More
- If the wages of sin are death, what else, I should like to know, is the wages of virtue? More
- If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; More
- If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for... More
- In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are... More
- Is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us? More
- It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
That all sin is... More
- It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin. More
- It is the sinner’s dust-tongued bell claps me to churches
When, with his torch and... More
- It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. More
- I’m an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. More
- Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. More
- Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass but my madness... More
- Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round!
Parents first season us; then... More
- Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love,... More
- Madam, or sir, would you visit on the butterfly the sins of the caterpillar? More
- Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he hand never seen one;
He would have sinned... More
- Not today, O Lord,
O not today, think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing... More
- Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still... More
- Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. More
- O Conscience! into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which
I... More
- O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And... More
- O women, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence,
When songs I wove for my beloved hide the... More
- Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal... More
- Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. More
- Once the sin against God was the greatest sin, but God died, and so these sinners died as well.... More
- One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. More
- One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word... More
- One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke. More
- One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are,... More
- Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first. More
- People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the... More
- Public scandal is what makes the offense; sinning in private is not sinning at all. More
- Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong; it can end everything. More
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting. More
- Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. More
- Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the... More
- She, O, she is fallen
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her... More
- Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last... More
- Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. More
- Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, it is... More
- Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their... More
- Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. More
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