Sigrid Undset Quotes

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

He that does evil hates the light.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.