Philip Massinger Quotes

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

You choose sin. You practice sin.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.