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“The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.”
“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and dutythat all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin...”
“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.”
“I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speak...”
“Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.”
“I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.”
“...sin is separation.”
“To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for ange...”
“There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.”
“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”
“Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.”
“And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance”
“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...”
“Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Sa...”
“All of us to one degree or another disconnect from Gods story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.”
“His voice wavered and he looked down abruptly, at last making some vain effort to hide the shameful tears that tracked down his cheeks even as he continued to pin Boyd against the wall. 'I wish I c...”
“Sin stared at him as he chewed, cream smeared across his mouth and smudged on the other side of it. It shouldn't have been possible to glare and eat like a child at the same time, but somehow Sin p...”
“The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twent...”
“Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the e...”
