Quotes and Sayings about Sin

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

No higher power sits in judgement of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins. In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing.

Why do people sin? The concept of sin exists because humans choose to sin.

Even in sin, you can still be a saint.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.

It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

Examined from another angle, your faults and weaknesses can be weapons.

Mistakes are not shackles that halt one from stepping forward. Rather, they are that which sustain and grow one's heart.

There's a benefit about losing: you get to learn from your mistakes.

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

I make mistakes
Just like everybody else
But instead of letting go of it
I can't forgive myself

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

Let's have a toast. For the hits life throws our way. With time, they're what make you stronger, young man.

I'm going to tell you something curious about prisons. You're never alone. But you always have the feeling that you are.

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Are you ready to give up who you once thought you were? Ready to sacrifice everything you held close? Are you ready to leave your life behind and walk the path of shadows? Then out of the dark, you will come into the light. And from the light, you will return to the dark. Never forget the tenets you have sworn to uphold. Stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent. Hide in plain sight. Never compromise the Brotherhood. From this day forward you are a Hidden One. You are nothing!

I watched them fight and die in the name of freedom, They speak of liberty and justice. But for who?

Some dogs won't obey until you show 'em the stick.

Sometimes, a man gets exactly what he wishes for, and that can be the most perfect punishment of all.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

What else would make humans repent other than fear? Can you think of even one other thing?

My job is to catch them. Whether their victim is good or bad, doesn't matter. Whether they killed to save the world or for fun. No matter what their reason might be, we catch murderers.

Want to know what God thinks of money? Take a look at who he gives it to.

Get the f out of here and don't stop walking until you hear them speak English!

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die."