sinner quotes

He which converteththesinner fromthe errorof his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 5:20.

Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

Would I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Would she could make of me a saint, Or I of her a sinner.

-William Congreve
'Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers'.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore ishewearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
'Additional Poems', no.18, in Collected Poems (1939).

Esto peccator et pecca fortiter, sed fortius fide et gaude in Christo. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but more boldly believe and rejoice in Christ.

- Martin Luther
  Letter to Melanchthon.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
  In The Smart Set, Dec.

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Poems and Essays,'Survey of Literature'.