Vance Havner Quotes

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

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.

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

If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.