Sin Quotes
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It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
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Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.
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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.
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Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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Sin is like a cancer; God’s presence is like radiation on that cancer.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
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You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!
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Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
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If the disease is sin, the remedy is found at the Cross.
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What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
