If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

For 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.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I do not pilfer victory.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.