Sin Quotes
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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.
Iris DeMent
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Samuel Hopkins
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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.
Olive Schreiner
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam Clarke
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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.
Charles Hodge
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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.
Barbara G. Walker
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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.
Valerie Plame
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius
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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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters
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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.
Oswald Chambers
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
Wendell Berry
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Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R. C. Sproul
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
R. C. Sproul
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
Walter Scott
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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.
Barbara Tuchman