Quotes about Sin
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
— Billy Sunday
The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.
— James Faust
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
— St. Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
— St. Augustine
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
— St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
— St Bonaventure
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
— St. John Chrysostom
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He cutteth off your love to the creature, that ye might learn that God only is the right owner of your love, sorrow, loss, sadness, death or the worst things that are, except sin:
— Samuel Rutherford