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Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I ---" He held up his hands. "It's no problem. And I didn't mean to be pushy. But i've seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world bette because they only see the worst in it." There was still something about the tone of his voice and his features that made me feel like I knew him. "I know what you mean." I shook my head. "I don't want to be like that. But I get so angry. Sometimes I feel like I know too much, or that I've done things I can't make right, and it just hovers over me. And when I see things happen that shouldn't..." "You don't know what to do with yourself." "Exactly." He nodded. "Well, I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better." I laughed. "That doesn't make sense."He stood. "You just think about it a little.
— Kiera Cass, The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard
pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..
— Jinnul Jr.
always see the goodness in others for it will sent you to righteousness,.. Amen
— Jinnul Jr.
People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Good things are always appreciated, bad things deserve ignorance.
— Ritesh Shrivastav
The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.
— Elizabeth George
Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Look its very simple: You're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. You dare to be bad, I've got good reflex. Can go to bad bitch mode in no time.
— Shreya Gupta
Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.
— Cassia Leo, Black Box
He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
— Greek Proverb
Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome.
— Yugesh Ralli
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
— Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.
— Seanan McGuire, Carniepunk
A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.
— Luther Burbank
where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.
— deepakgogna
Everything we go through, the good and the bad, make us who we are; why would I want to be anyone else?
— P.A. Minyard, The Beloved
The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all things arrive. Let's leave doubt for tomorrow," Komatsu said. "That is the point.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Good Person, Good Words and Good Action are independent, wisdom lies in recognizing each of this good irrespective of other one or two being not Good.
— Venkat Gandhi
It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.
— Daniel Willey
Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.
— Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel
I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The Perfect Person's Rule of Life:The perfect person does not only try to avoid evil. Nor does he do good for fear of punishment, still less in order to qualify for the hope of a promised reward.The perfect person does good through love.His actions are not motivated by desire for personal benefit, so he does not have personal advantage as his aim. But as soon as he has realized the beauty of doing good, he does it with all his energies and in all that he does.He is not interested in fame, or a good reputation, or a human or divine reward.The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
— Clement of Alexandria
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
5 rules to live a happier life: 1) Love yourself. 2) Do good. 3) Always forgive. 4) Harm no one. 5) Be positive.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."-Adam Pazandak
— Adam
I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me
— Shrek movie
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.
— John F. Kennedy
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.
— Octave Chanute
The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real)She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you did wtih her, she comes backs again with love!
— akshay Me
[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
— G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.
— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Additions like to enter without knocking, you just have to close the door for good...
— Alen Sargsyan
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— Rubianne Wood
never put all the good people in one plane, ship, train .....
— Jay Woodman
Let's fly away and live forever
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
A pen is neither good nor bad. It’s what you do with it that makes it a weapon of war or a tool of peace.Likewise, love is neither good nor bad. It’s what you do with it that makes it the ultimate punishment or the greatest reward.
— Lilly Mance, Coma
Good girl doesn’t exist
—  you just have to choose between bad and worse.
I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.
— Orson Scott Card
All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Think a thousand times when you get a bad though, but not once when you get a good one.
— Dreamer
Why can’t I just be bad?” I asked, figuring my mom would have no idea what I was talking about.“Well, that’s easy, sweetie. You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn’t feel good.
— Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight
I do two things," she told me. "I remind myself that it's not all about me. And I focus on the good. There's always a way to find some good.
— Julie Cantrell, Into the Free
The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.
— Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers?
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate . . . for any social system to remain in balance.
— Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, prose must not.It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as the clouds of dawn,—it is not fitting at all that all this should be narrated, and it is too much to have even called attention to it.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I AM NOT UR BESTFRND BUT I'M UR GOODFRND..
— James, Understand Roman Civilization a Teach Yourself Guide
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.
— A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet
Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.
— Ujas Soni
I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
— Mahatma Gandhi, The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Don't cheat when you got the most beautiful woman by your side
— MG
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
— William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
It’s like I’m trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn’t work. It’s stupid. I need both hands. So I guess I just have to spread out my arms and accept the bad with the good.
— Andrea Lochen
Good soul easily sleeps well.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
One day Mrs. Goodkind said,'Pickles, you are not a bad cat.You are not a good cat.You are good and bad.And bad and good.You are a mixed-up cat.What you need is a good home.Then you will be good.' 
— Esther Averill, The Fire Cat
It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good.
— Mohd Riyaz Ali
If you have learned to be good by yourself you will always be.
— M.F. Moonzajer
One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who...""Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "About the story you're about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves?""Three sieves?" The man asks "What three sieves?""Let's try it" Socrates says."The first sieve is the one of truth, did you examine what you were about to tell me if it is true?" Socrates asks."Well no, I just overheard it" The man says."Ah, well then you have used the second sieve, the sieve of good?" Socrates asks "Is it something good what you're about to tell me?""Ehm no, on the contrary" the man answers."Hmmm" The wise man says "Let's use the third sieve then, is it necessary to tell me what you're so exited about?""No not necessary" the man says."Well" Socrates says with a smile "If the story you're about to tell me isn't true, good or necessary, just forget it and don't bother me with it.
— Socrates
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
— Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
— Democritus
Be good, or be good at it.
— Lil Wayne
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Start with your heart, and only good can follow!
— Ocean
Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: An Inner Sanctum Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories
Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .
— David Estes
I like your mama,' Trena tells me. 'She seems like good people.''Smile!' my mom calls to me from across the room, and I look at her and smile. Because she is good people. And she means well, even if she does drive me crazy.
— Frances O'Roark Dowell, Ten Miles Past Normal
Sometimes good is preventing us for being better".rbasequia..
— Regar Asequia
In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'".~R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not
— Laura Taylor, Intimate Strangers
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
— Neal Shusterman, Everlost
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea
Where do you go with your broken heart in tow? What do you do with the left over you? And how do you know, when to let go? Where does the good go, where does the good go?
— Tegan Quin
You can’t expect to conquer the world in one day, you know. All good things will come in time.
— Peter Koevari, Prophecies Awakening
Good and bad exist always, everywhere
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
— Jesse Owens
Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, "We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.
— Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
— Skip Coryell, Stalking Natalie
Good God, Keith.""Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...
— John Grisham, The Confession
There're three reasonspeople get away from here:gone good, gone bad orgone dead.
— Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
The amount of money you owe doesn't matter
—  as long as you use it for good
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There is no sinner like a young saint.
— Aphra Behn
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
— Nelson Mandela
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
— Mark Twain
To err is human - but it feels divine.
— Mae West
God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself-Misato Katsuragi
— Hideaki Anno, Groundwork Of Evangelion
The only sin is mediocrity.
— Martha Graham
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It doesn't change that I still want him, I still want to be with him, I still feel like the fucking air has been sucked out of the room when he walks in and I still think about him all the time.
— Santino Hassell, The Interludes
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
— Oscar Wilde
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
— Dean Koontz
Mirrors on the ceiling,The pink champagne on iceAnd she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'And in the master's chambers,They gathered for the feastThey stab it with their steely knives,But they just can't kill the beastLast thing I remember, I wasRunning for the doorI had to find the passage backTo the place I was before'Relax,' said the night man,'We are programmed to receive.You can check out any time you like,But you can never leave ...
— Eagles, Hotel California
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
— A.W. Tozer
Freedom is not worth it without him.
— Santino Hassell, Fade
You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
— C.S. Lewis
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
— John R.W. Stott
Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn’t it?
— Aimee Agresti, Illuminate
Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey. We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
— Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud. 
— C.S. Lewis
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
— Martin Luther
I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Flowers of sin, like some black sun,Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat.
— Shiv Kumar Batalvi
I don't want to go back to the way I fucking was. I don't want to go back to being alone and having to be nothing but a weapon. I don't want to pretend that I don't--" [Sin] stopped again and realized with a vague sense of humiliation that he was about to display the ultimate form of human weakness. "I can't do it without you," he grit out. "I won't.
— Santino Hassell, Evenfall
In his life Christ is an example showingus how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
— Martin Luther
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.
— Jonathan Edwards
The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins
—  it's your damnable good works.
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
— Augustine of Hippo
She smashes her knuckles into winterAs autumn's wind fades into blackShe is the saint of all the sinners,the one whose fallen through the cracks...(iViva la Gloria!)
— Green Day
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
— Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
— Thomas Watson
I wasn't afraid of you!' Ryan protested. 'I was half intimidated, half infatuated, and I didn't know how to act because of it.'Sin made a face at Ryan and picked up his chips again. 'How could you be infatuated with me when you didn't even know me?'Ryan scoffed and pointed his cheese-covered fork at Sin. 'You're gorgeous and tragic—gay boys like that kind of thing.
— Santino Hassell, The Interludes
Raynor slapped her so hard her teeth rattled and eyes stung, but she refused to react except to say saucily,"You must have heard how I like foreplay.""I hope you like it a lot, because with your mouth, you'll be getting it nonstop.""Goody," she said dryly. "Because I so love a man who needs to prove his masculinity by beating on women. Do you hit children and kick cats, too?
— Larissa Ione, Sin Undone
I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
— J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
— Craig Ferguson
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The imagination is a wonderful thing
—  it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
But let me tell ya, spend every day living only for yourself, every day indulging in little sins that aren’t that big of a deal, and one day I may be showing you the ropes in hell. Amen.
— Victoria Scott, The Collector
Sin is cosmic treason. Sin is treason against a perfectly pure Sovereign. It is an act of supreme ingratitude toward the One to whom we owe everything, to the One who has given us life itself. Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no to the righteousness of God. We are saying, “God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command me to do.
— R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
— Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here?
When sinners judge, God takes the stand.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Your feelings and thoughts are your own and fuck them if they think they can control them.
— Santino Hassell, The Interludes
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.The only vengeance worth having on sinis to make the sinner himself its executioner.
— George MacDonald
Vanity is my favourite sin.
— Al Pacino
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
— John Bunyan, The Holy War
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious.
— Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
— Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
They all have tired mouthsand bright seamless souls.And a longing (as for sin)sometimes haunts their dreams.They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still,like many, many intervalsin his might and melody.Only when they spread their wingsare they wakers of a wind:as if God with his broad sculptor-hands leafed through the pagesin the dark book of the beginning.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images
Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin? Master of Stupidity: No stupidity, no sin.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
— Augustine of Hippo, City of God
To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is only when those acts are complete that the slate can truly be wiped clean and amnesty gives way to a new beginning.
— Emily Thorne
I love you, Hsin," he said hoarsely. "I missed you so much.""I love you, too." Sin's voice was still thick and husky. "I came back for you. Because I wanted to find you, because I wanted to remember you.
— Santino Hassell, Fade
We're never separating again. Fucking never
— Santino Hassell, Fade
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
— R.C. Sproul, Reason to Believe: A Response to Common Objections to Christianity
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
— Billy Sunday
Henry's face went red in anger as he blustered at her audacity. It wasn't often anyone got the better of him, and Sin knew no woman had ever flummoxed him before. Not even Eleanor."You are willing to declare war for him ?" Henry asked indignantly.She didn't hesitate with her response. "I am. Are you?"Sin closed his eyes as he heard the most precious words of his life. She who believed in nothing but peace was willing to fight for him. He could die happily knowing that.Still, he couldn't let her do this. Henry would not rest until he buried her and her clan. A king's reputation was all he had, and if Henry lost face…"Callie," Sin said, waiting until her gaze met his. "Thank you, but you can't do this. You can't start a war over me. I'm not worth the cost.""You are worth everything to me.
— Kinley MacGregor, Born in Sin
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
— Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother
Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage. His blood was in revolt. He wandered up and down the dark slimy streets peering into the gloom of lanes and doorways, listening eagerly for any sound. He moaned to himself like some baffled prowling beast. He wanted to sin with another of his kind, to force another being to sin with him and to exult with her in sin. He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself. Its murmur besieged his ears like the murmur of some multitude in sleep; its subtle streams penetrated his being. His hands clenched convulsively and his teeth set together as he suffered the agony of its penetration. He stretched out his arms in the street to hold fast the frail swooning form that eluded him and incited him: and the cry that he had strangled for so long in his throat issued from his lips. It broke from him like a wail of despair from a hell of sufferers and died in a wail of furious entreaty, a cry for an iniquitous abandonment, a cry which was but the echo of an obscene scrawl which he had read on the oozing wall of a urinal.
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.
— Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.
— Billy Sunday
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
— William Shakespeare, Pericles
Be it sin or no, I hate the man!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.
— Matt Haig, The Radleys
We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.
— Matt      Chandler, The Explicit Gospel
Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.
— Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.
— A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own 
— Augustine of Hippo, The Manichean Debate: The Works of Saint Augustine
Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.
— Émile Zola, La Curée
Being with him makes me feel different.
— Santino Hassell, Fade
Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink--as if drink could be a problem. When people have come to call the problem of human intemperance the Problem of Drink, and to talk about curing it by attacking the drink traffic, they have reached quite a dim stage of barbarism. The thing is an inverted form of fetish worship; it is no sillier to say that a bottle is a god than to say that a bottle is a devil. The people who talk about the curse of drink will probably progress down that dark hill. In a little while we shall have them calling the practice of wife-beating the Problem of Pokers; the habit of housebreaking will be called the Problem of the Skeleton-Key Trade; and for all I know they may try to prevent forgery by shutting up all the stationers' shops by Act of Parliament.
— G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
— Guru Nanak
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
It's a sin only if conscience confirmed it.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories
With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.George MacDonald
— George MacDonald
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.
— Michael Coren, Why Catholics are Right
W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
We’re animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin…
— Heather McVea, Turn Darkly
But in his lapsed and sinful state, man is not capable, of any by himself, either to think, to will, or to do that which is really good, but it is necessary for him to be regenerated and renewed in his intellect, affections or will, and in all his powers, by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit, that he may be qualified rightly to understand, esteem, consider, will, and perform whatever is truly good. When he is made a partaker of this regeneration or renovation, I consider that, since he is delivered from sin, he is capable of thinking, willing, and doing that which is good, but yet not without the continued aids of Divine Grace.
— James Arminius
It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in the most sacred of quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.
— Foppe Vander Zwaag
He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.
— John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman G. Rickover
Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
— William  Kennedy, Roscoe
The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens . . . for one thousand Hells.
— R. Scott Bakker, The White Luck Warrior
His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.
— Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved
The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.
— Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
— Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love: A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus
Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
— Andrew Murray, Humility
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.
— Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader
There was no one innocent amongst us, I realized then. We were all sinners, one way or the other. We hurt with our hands, with our mouths, or with our minds. But what matters was the ‘why’.~Eyes of a Goddess
— Ukamaka Olisakwe
Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in hardness of heart, and so in the want of pious affections of heart, holiness does consist very much in those pious affections.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.
— Elena
If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?
— Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
Sin is the handle by which I get Christ,...
— John Duncan
Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed,but he might be the only one that could justify it.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut