Top 30 Transgression Quotes

I’d never been religious, but I’d always obeyed my elders. My decision to become an omnivore was fraught, not because it was a religious transgression but because it was my first act of self-assertion as a young adult.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the audience. What you have to try and do is that when there is something that could be seen as a transgression, you actually have a reason to justify the joke.

The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism’s anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.

The phrase ‘misuse of privilege’ is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It’s becoming a devalued term, and it’s making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.

I’ve always been fascinated with what motivates people’s transgressions and the scandalous journey into infamy.

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

My favorite was ‘The Secret Garden’. I loved it, and I think it’s had a big influence on all of my characters. ‘The Secret Garden’ is about transgressions and imperfect people.

Holder’s Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama’s political transgressions.

Try not to make every eating transgression at once. When I go out, I won’t ever do both dessert and drinks. Just pick one.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

‘Anna Karenina’ is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It’s gossip, rubbish – on the other hand, it’s the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

I’ve always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

Your transgressions will be punished. Dr. DisRespect, you will rest in peace.

A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

I have published a proclamation: ‘Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.’ I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ I think he’s made one of the crowning feminist statements in film.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.