Sin Quotes
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To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
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Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
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A call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.
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Pain is the outcome of sin.
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
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So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
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Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin.
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What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that is tyrannical and destructive.
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Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.
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Quite unnecessary, either, ever to say pfui to him, for he was a most virtuous dog, protected from sin by absence of desires. What a contrast to his impassioned predecessor!
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It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
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We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
