Quotes of: Sinning Keyword

We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.

Vladimir Nabokov

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is ...

City of Lost Souls

Sigo pensando que hubiera sido mejor ser un niño para toda la vida, sin ninguna preocupación, sin ninguna obligación, sin el latente deseo de querer ser tan igual pero muy distinto de los demás. La confusión al crecer no disminuye porque sepas m...

Sasha: Diario de un chico adolescente

Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy in the world—colored like a priest’s robe and collar—but she never believed it to be true. Sin was colorful: scarlet like rose b...

Message to New York

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time d...

The Problem of Pain

Theosophists for instance will preach an obviously attractive idea like re-incarnation; but if we wait for its logical results, they are spiritual superciliousness and the cruelty of caste. For if a man is a beggar by his own pre-natal sins, people w...

G.K. Chesterton

Solomon Northup: [Epps has just whipped Patsey within an inch of her life] Thou devil! Sooner or later, somewhere in the course of eternal justice thou shalt answer for this sin! Edwin Epps: No sin! There is no sin! A man does how he pleases with his...

12 Years a Slave

The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men, then an...

Christianity and Liberalism

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

The Fault in Our Stars

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

The Fault in Our Stars

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Wilson Mizner

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Killosophy

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.

The Mists of Avalon

You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.

The Sin Collector: Thomas

What kind of person would I be if I didn’t fight for them, those who God deemed most precious?

The Sin Collector: Thomas

And when I feel the masks beneath crumble and fade with time I build new ones to replace the old. "Masks"- Sins Within

Sins Within

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

The Pursuit of Holiness

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

Stanley Hauerwas

The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world.

John Paul Warren

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Khaled Hosseini

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins...

St. Maximos the Confessor