Moral Transgression Quotes

There are deeds, crimes that may be forgiven. But this is not one of them.

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

If every man in New York tonight who had broken the Seventh Commandment voted for Cleveland, he would be elected by a 200,000 vote majority.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

Adultery is extravagance.

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

When we make mistakes they call it evil

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.