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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
-William Cowper
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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
-Frank Dane
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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.
-John Donne
To Sir Henry Wotton
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
-John Dryden
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Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
-Mary Baker Eddy
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That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
-Thomas Fuller
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
-Andre Gide
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For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...
-Gerald Gould
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A sin is something which is not necessary.
-George Gurdjieff
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
-Heinrich Heine
attributed at his last words: Bien s
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
-Eric Hoffer
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
-Elbert Hubbard
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Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
-Kin Hubbard
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
-Henrik Ibsen
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
-Robert Irvine
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
-Rudyard Kipling
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Even the sinning of the regenerate man differs essentially from that of the unregenerate man.
-R. B. [Rienk Bouke] Kuiper
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So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.
-Charles Lamb
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Everything that used to be a sin, is now a disease.
-Bill Maher
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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
-Bernard Mandeville
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Books about Sin
