Jean-Bertrand Aristide Quotes

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

When I ordered my royal penitent to do or to leave undone anything, under penalty of mortal sin, I was obeyed;

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

One sin another doth provoke.