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| God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. | | John Ruskin | |
| He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it | | Seneca | |
| How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride. | | William Blake | |
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| If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever. | | Buddha | |
| If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land | | Bible | |
| If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life | | Albert Camus | |
| If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us | | Bible | |
| It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. | | Mae West | |
| It is a public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. | | Moliere | |
| Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. | | Jules Renard | |
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| Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. | | John Steinbeck | |
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| Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors | | Josh Billings | |
| No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. | | Eugene J. McCarthy | |
| Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. | | Oscar Wilde | |
