Sin Quotes
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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
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Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God; He is their safe place, where they can be at peace.
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Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
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There aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
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Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.
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Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
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We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’
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I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
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Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
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The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
