Sin Quotes
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Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. Ryle
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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.
Stephen Covey
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
K. P. Yohannan
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Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
Aubrey de Vere
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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.
Oscar Wilde
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One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.
William Shakespeare
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In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.
Harold B. Lee
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.
Alfred de Musset
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In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
R.J. Rushdoony
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How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?
William Butler Yeats
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
Andrew Solomon
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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?
Ernest Hemingway
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Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
Freya Stark
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Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
Archibald Alexander
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The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
George C. Homans
