Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.