Inspirational Quotes on Sin

“The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.”

“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.”

“Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.”

“All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.”

“Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.”

“We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument. Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.”

“Of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.”

“The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.”

“This act of self-will on the part of the creature, which constitutes an utter falseness to its true creaturely position, is the only sin that can be conceived as the Fall.”

“We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.”

“I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else.”

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.”

“At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.”

“Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. ”

“It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.”

“As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.”

“I believe that gluttony is as much a sin in the sight of God as drunkenness.”

“I must confess that I never realize Christ's preciousness so much as when I feel myself still to be, apart from Him, an undeserving, hell-deserving sinner.”

“If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?"”