Sin Quotes
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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
Oscar Wilde
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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
William Ellery Channing
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Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.
Annie Laurie Gaylor
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
Ernest Hemingway
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William Faulkner
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Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.
Joseph Prince
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He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
Wilhelm Grimm
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This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.
Thomas Hobbes
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Can I choose to undergo the greatest suffering rather than commit the least sin?
Philip Henry
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The rise and fall of Teresa Cornelys proves three things: that the wages of sin are high, that you should “just say no” to opera, and that it’s always wise to diversify your investment portfolio.
Ben Aaronovitch
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And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
Rachel Grace Held
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
Al Pacino
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How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?
William Butler Yeats
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Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.
Cornelius Plantinga
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Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
Joseph Prince
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No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner.
But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.
Leslie Poles Hartley
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The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
R.J. Rushdoony
