Laurence Sterne Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Moon, Sin, Shame

  1768 A Sentimental Journey,'The Monk, Calais'.

• Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

  Laurence Sterne

  Together, Wickedness, Literature

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

• Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heaven, Soul, Overcoming

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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