Francis Quarles Quotes

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

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

We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

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.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

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.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.