155 quotes found
“She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.”
“Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.”
“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 duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But si...”
“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...”
“Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.”
“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...”
“All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.”
“But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?”
“O sin what hast thou done to this fair earth!”
“He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.”
“He that is without sin among you let him cast the first stone.”
“It is not alone what we do but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.”
“0 thou who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin.”
“My son if sinners entice thee consent thou not.”
