As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about.

Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sinsLike wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused