Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. (Quote by - Piers Paul Read)

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality. (Quote by - Reggie White)

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! (Quote by - Billy Sunday)

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave. (Quote by - Friedrich von Logau)

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin. (Quote by - Elias Hicks)

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. (Quote by - Malcolm Bradbury)

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name. (Quote by - Orson Pratt)

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. (Quote by - Hyman Rickover)

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. (Quote by - Samuel Hopkins)

He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it (Quote by - French Proverb)

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. (Quote by - Mira Sorvino)

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. (Quote by - William Gurnall)

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. (Quote by - Olive Schreiner)

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. (Quote by - Michelangelo)

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations. (Quote by - John Walker Lindh)

But the trail of the serpent is over them all. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations. (Quote by - John Walker Lindh)