Sin Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin.
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If the slavery in which we hold the blacks is wrong, it is a very great and public sin, and, therefore, a sin which God is now testifying against in the calamities he has brought upon us; consequently, must be reformed before we can reasonably expect deliverance, or even sincerely to ask for it.
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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Sin is cosmic treason
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
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In this story, we are not God's enemies. We are God's image-bearers and the most precious thing he created. We are not sin but are oppressed by the force of sin. We need saving but not from God or even ourselves--we need saving from all of those many things that interfere with our ability to perfectly reflect and receive love.
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Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.
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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.
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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
