Quotes
Quotes about Sin
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
Only the sinner has a right to preach.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...
If someone were to prove to meâright this minuteâthat God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Remorse is the pain of sin.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
