In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
Luke Ford
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Thomas Fuller
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Matthew Henry
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
Grace Jones
Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were... →
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
Eugene McCarthy
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Alfred Nobel