Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
