Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.
Slavery was our nation's original sin.
There's no such thing as an original sin.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.
Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
