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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I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.
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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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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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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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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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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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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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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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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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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
