Hidden Sins Quotes

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.

That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.