“For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.”
“We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.”
“Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.”
“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
“A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”
“Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.”
“The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.”
“God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.”
“For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...”
“Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.”
“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.”
“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
“These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.”
“Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.”
“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.”
“Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.”
“Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.”
“To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.”
“Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”
“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
“Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.”
“The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.”
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
“If there is sin against life, it consists, in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
“True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.”
“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”
“God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.”