The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.
Sin is geographical.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
