Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not ugly but passe. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

When God loves a man, sin shall not harm him.

By Him Who holds my soul, if ye did not sin, verily would God do away with you, and bring forth a people who sin and who ask forgiveness of God, and them would He forgive.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

The only thing He forgets is our sins.

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.

The seven deadly sins are: Politics without principle; Wealth without work; Commerce without morality; Pleasure without conscience; Education without character; Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice.

Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.