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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
-Peter Marshall
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge
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Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.
-John H. Mccomb
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
-Phyllis Mcginley
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
-Ogden Nash
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The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
The Nature and Destiny of Man, Volume 1 Human Nature (Up-per Saddle River, New Jersey:Prentice Hall, 1964), 17
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they
-Sean O'Casey
Rose And Crown, "In: New York Now", 1952
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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
-Ovid
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
-Blaise Pascal
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
-Cesare Pavese
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Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
-Piers Paul Read
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
-William Shakespeare
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
-William Shakespeare
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
-William Shakespeare
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The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
-Cecil J. Sharpe
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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
-Igor Stravinsky
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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
-The Talmud
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
-Henry David Thoreau
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Books about Sin
