Quotes about Sinful Act

Gaspar de Cordoba

When I ordered my royal penitent to do or to leave undone anything, under penalty of mortal sin, I was obeyed;

Sometimes referred to as Gaspar de Toledo. This quotation Illustrates one of the ways that Churches maintained power over the secular government even though they were supposedly separate. By maintaining control over the secular leaders consciences and sense of morality, the Church could control the secular government. In this particular historical case, there was not even a supposed separation. The Confessor had an ex officio role in the high council. See {629457}.

Russell M. Nelson

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

P. D. James

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Benjamin Whichcote

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Mahavira

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Osama bin Laden

In the balance of Islam, this constitution is heresy, and therefore everyone who participates in this election will be considered infidels.

In the terrorists perverted logic, infidels are to be killed therefore all Iraqis who would vote would be targeted. Numerous Iraqi election officials were murdered by the terrorists as well as Iraqis who registered to vote.

Ja Rule

Word to God, we murderers.

Harper Lee

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Claudius

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Werner Herzog

Tourism is a mortal sin.

Jerry Bridges

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

William Shakespeare

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Mary Astell

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.