The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
Charles W. Chesnutt
The person sins, then blames Satan for it.
Afghan Proverb
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey Fisher
I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
Genghis Khan
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
Alfred Korzybski
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
Robert A. Heinlein
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.
Josh Billings
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
Karl Kraus
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Tryon Edwards
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
Ambrose Bierce
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
Joyce Cary
I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras
For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lover and lover,/ The light that loses, the night that wins.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
Camilla Parker Bowles
Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.
Jonathan Aitken
So don't let money tell you who you are. Don't let power tell you who your are. Don't let enemies and -- for God's sake -- don't let your sins tell you who you are. Don't prove yourself. That's taken care of. All we have to do is express ourselves. It's difficult, but we're a lot more alive in pain than in complacency.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
Ambrose Bierce
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
Marvin Gaye
The men of learning have determined '7 types of conduct' and man sins even if one of them is breached. He, who builds the castle of his life based on these 'seven pillars', attains to that 'supreme-place'(heaven) where all the 'paths'(religion) converge ultimately and exists for eternity.
Atharva Veda
The Sins of Our Fathers.
John Browning
Any cloth may cover our sores, but the finest silk will not cover our sins.
Henry Smith
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
Archibald Alexander
Youth should heed the older-wittedWhen they say, don't go too far --Now their sins are all committed,Lord, how virtuous they are!
Wilhelm Busch
It's a triumphant celebration. It's more than just 'Jesus died for our sins.' It's an outpouring of spirit. He gave us his spirit to never leave us, but also gave us the responsibility of delivering the Gospel, sharing the Good News.
Tony Cribb
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
James Joyce
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
John Flavel
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Mathew Henry
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
Saint Patrick
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Ninon de Lenclos
Let mortification be especially directed to strike at those sins that act your master sins-that at, most prevalent and predominant in your heart, that yet you have most prayed against and are least able to resist, that strongly assault you and most easily beset you and are masters over you.
Christopher Love
You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But that may be a way to keep employees more engaged.
Gary Kushner
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. These two kinds of social activity overlap.
Ambrose Bierce
My feeling is that today's authorities probably have many sins, that's why they are madly afraid of losing power and they probably saw in him some kind of future leader.
Marina Khodorkovsky
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus
The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
Ben Hecht
We're paying for some of the sins of the past. But we have made great strides, and some of that hard work is going to show up in the coming years. And we also have some ideas in place to shore up short-term business as well.
Tim Newman
ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth. Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. Junker Barlow.
Ambrose Bierce
Arroyo has more sins, but she has the gall to use force to stop our protests.
Vencer Crisostomo
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine - My sins are my own, they belong to me.
Patti Smith
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
Baroness Orczy
Make peace with man and war with your sins.
Russian proverb
It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
Franklin Graham
One who is allowed to sin, sins less.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Easter, for me, is a remembrance of what the Lord gave up for me to have salvation. It is about forgiveness of sins and healing. It reminds me that he suffered and died for me, a sinner, that I may have everlasting life; that I may be healed by his strife.
Barbara Stephens
Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
Aleksander Kaasniewski
The pope has long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins on the occasion of the Jubilee. For him, it's the culmination of many years of work, as a pontiff who lost a lot of his Jewish friends during the horror of the Holocaust and questioned the complicity of his own faith as a result.
David Van Biema
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard
It looks like the new owners have really put some effort into everything. So far, they seem like they're really working to correct the sins of the past.
Jack Weiss
The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
Shawn Ryan
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A bull market can cover a lot of sins and cultural issues.
Diana Yates
I think for both of us, and, hopefully, for all of us, we wonder, 'Do the dead view us? Do they forgive us our sins? Do they accept us? Do they shepherd us? ... So that aspect was in the book and the film, both.
Mark Spragg
Our past sins are catching up to us.
Pat Mccutcheon
The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Sins of the Fathers ... Cuba problem.
Robert Ludlum
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Franz Kafka
For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more inclined to than others, according to his constitution.
Christopher Love
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
If I were a priest, I would not preach about God or sins (...); I would cite the poets, pray their verses, the most beautiful ones, (...) because poetry purifies the soul...and a beautiful poem - even those which are apart from God -, a beautiful poem always takes us to Heaven!
Mario Quintana
Both sides succumbed to the temptation to attribute to oneself only glory and to accuse one's political rival of all sins, both unintentional and fictitious.
Leonid Kuchma
I was a woman, separated, a socialist, an agnostic ... all possible sins together.
Michelle Bachelet
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose Bierce
Slippery bunch, angels, hiding their nasty little sins behind curtsies and compliments, Bibles and badges.
Jean Harris
We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.
Franklin Graham
The more you feel anger, the less likely you are to put your best effort into the job and the less likely you are to tell an employer that there is a quicker, better way to do your job. These are sins of omission, rather than commission.
Donald Gibson
There's a fork in the road, you can be jealous, or you can be happy. I always choose happiness. Jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins, ... If I've got two loaves of bread under each arm, why must I feel jealous of anybody? Why can't I just be happy for myself? If that's the way you look at it, then why isn't Randy jealous of David Letterman or Jay Leno? Because there's .
Lanny Poffo
You're not prepared to put a mirror in front of your face and recognize your own inadequacies. Perhaps you may get a more sympathetic hearing if you had a willingness to confess your own sins in this.
Norm Coleman
Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam.
Lord William Beveridge
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?
John Steinbeck
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
Ambrose Bierce
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Archibald Alexander
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
John Bunyan
I am a woman, a socialist, separated and agnostic - all the sins together.
Michelle Bachelet
People will continue to have a negative opinion of police in this city. That goes back to some of the sins the department has been guilty of over the past 10 to 15 years.
Rafael Goyeneche
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
Eugene J. Mccarthy
This is perfect. I'll be coaching at a Catholic high school. I will just be really, really toned down. I can't yell or scream. I can't eat. I can only drink water. Besides, 24 hours is not enough time to confess my sins.
George Harrison
Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His.
Ellen G. White
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