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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Author:
Charles Williams
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There is no sin except stupidity.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
Author:
Reggie White
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But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.
Author:
Reggie White
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Author:
Mae West
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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
Author:
John Webster
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Author:
Harold Warner
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Author:
Alice Walker
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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Author:
Peter Tosh
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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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.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Author:
Benmont Tench
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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
Author:
Algernon Swinburne
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
Author:
Henry Stimson
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
Author:
Josiah Stamp
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People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Author:
Richard Stallman
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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.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Author:
Muriel Spark
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Author:
Frederick Soddy
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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
Author:
Tony Snow
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
Author:
Tony Snow
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If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
Author:
William Smith
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Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.
Author:
Margaret Smith
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To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
Author:
George Smith
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But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
Author:
Delia Smith
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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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By that sin fell the angels.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Author:
Olive Schreiner
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Author:
Francis Schaeffer
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Author:
Dorothy Sayers
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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.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Author:
Susan Sarandon
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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Sin is geographical.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Author:
Alfred Rosenberg
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I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
Author:
Robert Rodriguez
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Competition is a sin.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Author:
Hyman Rickover
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If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Author:
Hyman Rickover
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The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
Author:
Herbert Read
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
Author:
Willard Quine
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Author:
Willard Quine
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Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
Author:
Joseph Prince
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Author:
Paula Poundstone
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Author:
Pope Paul VI
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Humanity is the sin of God.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
Author:
Al Pacino
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Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
Author:
John Owen
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Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
Author:
Origen
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Author:
J. Oppenheimer
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Author:
John Neumann
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Author:
Ogden Nash
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Author:
Hector Munro
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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
Author:
Max Muller
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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It's a sin to be tired.
Author:
Kate Moss
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Author:
Hannah More
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Author:
Maria Monk
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Author:
Moliere
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
Author:
Keith Miller
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Author:
Henry Miller
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Author:
Frank Miller
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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Author:
Charles Merriam
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Author:
H. Mencken
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Author:
Herman Melville
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Author:
Herman Melville
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Being seventy is not a sin.
Author:
Golda Meir
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Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
Author:
Carson McCullers
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The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Author:
Denise McCluggage
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Author:
Benjamin Mays
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
Author:
Walter Martin
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Author:
Judith Martin
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Author:
Jose Marti
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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There is no sin but ignorance.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Author:
Bill Maher
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
Author:
Arthur Machen
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Author:
Martin Luther
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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
Author:
Frederick Locker-Lampson
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.
Author:
John Lindh
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It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.
Author:
John Lindh
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Author:
Joseph Lightfoot
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
Author:
T. Lawrence
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
Author:
Walter Lang
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The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Author:
Abraham Kuyper
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Author:
Eason Jordan
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I look upon pride as a sin.
Author:
Tommy Jones
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
Author:
E. Jones
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Author:
Samuel Hopkins
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Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Author:
Herman Hesse
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
Author:
Anna Held
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
Author:
Desmond Harrington
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
Author:
David Hare
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Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
Author:
Jupiter Hammon
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Author:
Robert Hamilton
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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
Author:
David Halberstam
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
Author:
William Gurnall
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The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
Author:
William Gurnall
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
Author:
William Gurnall
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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
Author:
Angelina Grimke
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Author:
Angelina Grimke
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The only sin is mediocrity.
Author:
Martha Graham
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
Author:
Marvin Gaye
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Author:
James Garfield
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
Author:
Veronica Franco
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Author:
Anatole France
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Author:
John Flavel
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Author:
Olympia Dukakis
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Author:
John Dryden
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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In art, the obvious is a sin.
Author:
Edward Dmytryk
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Author:
Annie Dillard
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Author:
Iris Dement
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Author:
Daniel Defoe
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From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
Author:
Howard Dean
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
Author:
John Darby
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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
Author:
Frank Dane
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There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.
Author:
Mary Crosby
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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Every sin is the result of collaboration.
Author:
Stephen Crane
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Author:
Abraham Cowley
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
Author:
Elvis Costello
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
Author:
John Chrysostom
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Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Author:
Jesus Christ
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Author:
Ron Chernow
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
Author:
Thomas Campbell
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
Author:
John Calvin
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Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
Author:
Rocco Buttiglione
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
Author:
Ellen Burstyn
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
Author:
John Bunyan
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For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
Author:
Martin Buber
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If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Author:
William Bridges
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But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Author:
Georg Brandes
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Author:
Louis Brandeis
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Author:
Malcolm Bradbury
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Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
Author:
Dewitt Bodeen
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
Author:
Georges Bernanos
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Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Author:
Arnold Bennett
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Author:
Anne Baxter
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Author:
Isaac Barrow
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
Author:
Isaac Barrow
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I know what sin is.
Author:
Brigitte Bardot
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Author:
Lester Bangs
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Author:
Pearl Bailey
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Author:
Saint Avila
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Saint Augustine
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Author:
Mary Astell
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
Author:
Mary Astell
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I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
Author:
Armand Assante
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Author:
Johann Arndt
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Author:
Joan Arc
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Author:
Michelangelo Antonioni
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I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black.
Author:
John Andrew
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You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.
Author:
Giulio Andreotti
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
Author:
William Ames
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
Author:
William Ames
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Author:
Archibald Alexander
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Author:
Archibald Alexander
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Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
Author:
John Acton
