Thrum Thursday: Sin - It's Everywhere!

This is from this morning's entry in the devotion book I'm working through: Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy by Paul David Tripp.

My sin is ever before me. Psalm 51:3



Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but forbidden because it is hurtful. - Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sin. - Lao Tzu

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. - Seneca

Pleasure is the bait of sin. - Plato

A sin takes on new and real terror when there seems to be a chance that it is going to be found out. - Mark Twain

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson

Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end. - The Talmud

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. - Thomas Fowell Buxton

To sin is a human business, to justify sin is a devilish business. - Tolstoy

If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart harder and harder. - John Bunyan

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. - Lord Byron

It is impossible for a man to be freed from he habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. - Ignatius

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or the guilt of sin. - C.S. Lewis

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. - William Law

In short, a man must be free from the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does. - George MacDonald

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. - Brennan Manning

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. - Montaigne

Personal sin reflected upon breeds compassion. - John M. Shanahan

People don't do what they believe in - they just do what's most convenient and then they repent. - Bob Dylan

I would rather feel remorse than know how to define it. - Thomas A Kempis

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet i them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. - Seneca

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. - W.H. Auden

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. - Hungarian Proverb

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it, and the farther we go, the more we have to come back. - Isaac Barrow

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built. - Emmanuel Kant

We are all too Christian to really enjoy sinning, and all too fond of sin to really enjoy Christianity. - Peter Marshall

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. - William Shakespeare