Iniquity Quotes

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

To go to war against the Turks is to resist God who punishes our iniquities through them.

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me to oppose those who work iniquity? Do you not know how that God will scatter the bones of those who strive to oppress Him? They shall be confounded, because the Lord hath despised them.

I most sincerely wish there was not a slave in the province. It has always seemed a most iniquitous scheme to me—to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

Every one shall die for his own iniquity.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem — for purely religious purposes, of course — to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Evil is real.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Evil will always exist in this world.

To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations if iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less.

We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.