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

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Ability without honor is useless.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

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

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

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

By that sin fell the angels.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

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 post of honour is a private station.

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.

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

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

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.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Sin is geographical.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

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

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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

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.

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.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

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.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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

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

I do not pilfer victory.