What are sins?

Famous quotes containing the word sins:

    The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
    André Gide (1869–1951)

    Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
    Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)

    Newspapers ... give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)