Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

A deed of necessity is not sinful. [ C. C. Goetner ]

It is a great sin to swear unto a sin.
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our eyes when gazing on sinful objects are out of their calling and God's keeping. [ Fuller ]

The scandal of the world is what makes the offense: it is not sinful to sin in silence. [ Moliere, Tartufe ]

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul. [ Richard Fuller ]

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. [ Hosea Ballou ]

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]