| Citat |
Sagt av |
| "Jag tar på mig synden om du tar mig på dig", sade prästen till flickan. | Lucius Annæus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65 f.Kr.) |
| Att förbjuda synden,är att inbjuda till den. | Lucius Annæus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65 f.Kr.) |
| Att synda är det samma som att inte göra det goda som ligger i vår natur. | Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) |
| Avund beror på att människor bortser från, eller saknar tro på, sina egna gåvor. | Jean Vanier |
| Bara genom att leva syndar vi. Den som inte vet det, vet inte vad synd är, men heller inte vad det är att leva. | Alf Larsen (1885-1967) |
| De andliga synderna är större än köttets synder. | Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) |
| De synder ni gör två och två, får ni betala för en och en. | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| Den av er som inte har syndat kan kasta första stenen på henne. | Bibelen |
| Den som sover syndar icke. | Latinskt ordspråk |
| Den som syndar sover icke. | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Den som säger sanningen syndar inte, men han ställer till med besvär. | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Den som tillåts synda, syndar mindre. | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Det bästa för själen är det tillstånd då man inte syndar men känner sig syndig. | Leo Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Det finns bara två slags människor: de rättfärdiga som tror de är syndare och de syndare som tror de är rättfärdiga. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Det finns inga synder utom dumhet. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Det finns två dödssynder ur vilka alla andra föds: Otålighet och lättja. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Det hade varit lättare om det hade gällt att bekänna andras synder, det hade inte känts lika personligt för mej alltså. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Det krävs både kraft och allvar för att synda. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Det var inte jag som uppfann synden. Jag försöker bara fullända den. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Det är ingen synd att böja några lagar ibland, bara du inte bryter mot dem. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Det är något fundamentalt galet med folk som inte vill bryta något av de tio buden. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Där det finns kärlek, finns ingen synd. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Efter att ha spelat Chopin känns det som om jag gråtit över synder jag aldrig begått. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| En synd är ingen synd, förrän den blir känd. | Ordspråk från Norge |
| Fem sinnen - fem dörrar för synden. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Fädrernas synder går igen hos barnen. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| För att Gud ska kunna förlåta oss våra synder måste vi först ha syndat. | Brendan Behan (1923-1964) |
| Gamla synder kastar långa skuggor | Ukjente ordtak |
| Hur omåttliga ter sig inte de synder vi inte har begått. | Suzanne Necker |
| I kärlek finns två slags synder: de förlåtliga och de oförlåtliga. | Helen Vita (1928-2001) |
| Ibland förlåter jag Gud. Fast hans synder är då betydligt större än mina. | Jules Feiffer (1929-) |
| Jesus dog för våra synder, så låt oss inte göra honom besviken. | Jules Feiffer (1929-) |
| Jesus dog för våra synder. Ska vi då göra hans martyrskap meningslöst genom att inte begå dem? | Jules Feiffer (1929-) |
| Kvinnor är alltid söta när de syndar, även om det bara är mot grammatiken. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Lathet är inget annat än en vana att vila innan du blir trött. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Man kan säga vad man vill om ett syndigt leverne, men det är allmänbildande. | Hjalmar Bergman (1883-1931) |
| Man ska hata synden, men älska syndaren. | Aurelius Augustinus (354-430) |
| Medlidandet botar fler synder är fördömandet. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Motsatsen till glädje heter inte sorg - den heter synd. | Ordspråk från Ryssland |
| Mycket pengar - stora synder; inga pengar - ännu större. | Ordspråk från Ryssland |
| Många människor sätter hellre sin ära i att ångra sina synder än att undvika dem. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Människan straffas inte för sina synder utan genom dem. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| När man har blivit gammal ångrar man just de synder man inte har begått. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Om det inte är syndigt,är det inte roligt. | Ukjente ordtak |
| Skandal för världen är det som väcker anstöt; den syndar inte som syndar i det tysta. | Molière |
| Svartsjuka är den mest fasansfullt ofrivilliga av alla synder. | Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) |
| Synd är blott det: att göra orätt och underlåta att göra gott ... | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Synd är geografiskt betingat. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Syndandet är själva kännetecknet för "Människa" | Kjell Arild Pollestad (1949-) |
| Syndare är vi allihopa. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Synden förökas. När vi säger en lögn, måste vi i regel säga en rad lögner för att dölja den första. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Synden är inte något vi ska studera, synden är det vi ska hålla oss ifrån. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Syndens rikedom går åt till att göra bot. | Ordspråk från Indien-Hindi |
| Utan synd ingen frälsning. | Ordspråk från Ryssland |
| Vad skulle litteraturen, målarkonsten, teaterkonsten och filmkonsten varit utan synden som inspirationskälla? | Åsa Rytter Evensen (1942-) |
| Världens dödssynd är och blir alltjämt den stora, sega, sura tråkigheten. | Bo Bergman (1869-1967) |
| Äktenskapet är tre delar kärlek och sju delar syndernas förlåtelse | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Mennesket straffes ikke for deres synder - men af dem. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Synd har her i landet altid være opfattet som snarere beregnende end impulsiv | Frank Moore Colby (1865-1926) |
| Man synder, hvis man tænker ondt om sin næste, men man gætter også rigtigt. | Giulio Andreotti (1919-) |
| Vi er alle syndere, de bedste kan man finde i kirken, de allerbedste på kroen. | Knud Poulsen |
| Andre menneskers synder er foran vore øjne, vores egne bag vores ryg. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Måske er der kun én dødssynd: utålmodighed. På grund af utålmodighed blev vi drevet ud af Paradis, på grund af utålmodighed kan vi ikke vende tilbage | Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) |
| The person sins, then blames Satan for it | Afghan Proverb |
| Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. | Alain Rene Lesage (1668-1747) |
| God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world | Charles Hodge (1894-1964) |
| I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance | Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) |
| Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. | Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979) |
| Sin goes in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays | George Swinnock |
| It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner | Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968) |
| Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins | Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) |
| Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts | Jean Vanier |
| You'll never be able to speak against sin if you're entertained by it | John Muncee |
| Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals | John Vanbrugh, Sr. |
| O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils | Joseph Alleine |
| Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil. | Kara Vichko |
| Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober | Legal Maxim |
| Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty | Margaret Smith |
| In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner | Richard John Neuhaus |
| There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. | Roger Caras |
| Every sin is the result of collaboration | Stephen Crane (1871-1900) |
| Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains | Thomas Fowell Buxton |
| Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam | William Beveridge (1879-1963) |
| Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. | Bern Williams |
| 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil | Daniel DeFoe (1660-1731) |
| No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. | Eugene McCarthy (1916-) |
| If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder | John Bunyan (1628-1688) |
| Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love | John Bunyan (1628-1688) |
| Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of | John Calvin (1509-1564) |
| Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it | Martin Buber (1878-1965) |
| Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit. | Marvin Gaye (1939-1984) |
| The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. | Ninon de L'Enclos |
| The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. | Paula Poundstone (1959-) |
| The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| One who is allowed to sin, sins less | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. | Robert Southey (1774-1843) |
| Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end. | The Talmud |
| Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956) |
| Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. | Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) |
| The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling (1 Peter 4:8-9). | 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 (1913-1960) |
| All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the smallest ship unless it gets inside, and all the evil in the world, the blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others | Al Pacino (1940-) |
| If you do not want the fruits of sin stay out of the devil's orchard | Al Pacino (1940-) |
| Vanity is my favourite sin. | Al Pacino (1940-) |
| Sin is whatever obscures the soul. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. | Bhagavad Gita |
| This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong | Bible |
| For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord | Bible |
| 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 |
| Charity shall cover the multitude of sins | Bible |
| 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 (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God—your God—is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God. | Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world | Charles Hodge (1894-1964) |
| 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil | Daniel DeFoe (1660-1731) |
| There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best | Doris Lessing (1919-) |
| So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it | French Proverb |
| The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double | German Proverb |
| A sin concealed is half-pardoned | Italian Proverb |
| Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Laws can discover sin, but not remove it | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| 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 (1902-1968) |
| Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
| Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation | Latin Proverb |
| A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Sin cannot tear you away from him (Christ), even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| It is a public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him | Muhammad |
| Charity creates a multitude of sins. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Pleasure is the bait of sin | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| It is a sin against hospitality, to open your doors and darken your countenance | Proverb |
| God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner | Richard John Neuhaus |
| Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid). | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| We are not accountable for the sins of Adam | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| A vow is a snare for sin | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| All sins are attempts to fill voids. | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals | Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) |
| The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| I am a man more sinned against than sinning. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Mange mennesker setter snarere sin ære i å angre sine synder enn å unngå dem. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Med kristelig nestekjærlighet tilgir jeg meg selv mine synder. Særlig de store. De små ser jeg fram til å gjenta. | Jens Bang |
| Om ulven lærer fadervår, jakter han fortsatt på lammet. | Ordtak |
| Synd er blott det: å gjøre urett og unnlate å gjøre godt . | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Synd løfter én, ved dyd kan andre falle. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Synden er ikke fullkommen før man roser seg av den | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Syndens vei er brei, kort og med et høyt gelender | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Synderene vet ikke, naar deres Omvendelsestime slaar | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Ved å leve synder vi. Den som ikke vet det, vet ikke hva synd er, men heller ikke hva det er å leve. | Alf Larsen (1885-1967) |
| Vi synder ofte slik - som all erfaring har vist til overmål: Med fromme miner og gudelige fakter strør vi sukker på djevelen selv. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |