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• The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

  Martin Luther

  Would Be, Sin, Righteous

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.54, Fortress Press

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• I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

  Nadine Dorries

  Laughing, Library, Done

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• If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

  Edna O'Brien

  Teeth, Sin, Holy

  Edna O'Brien (2011). “Saints and Sinners”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Greed, Sake

  "Summa Theologica".

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• Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Verbs, Use

  "Elmore Leonard's rules for writer" by Elmore Leonard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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• the only mortal sin is giving up.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Sin, Mortals

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal sin. He it was who, through His atoning sacrifice, broke the bonds of death and with godly power rose triumphant from the tomb. He is our Redeemer, the Redeemer of all mankind. He is the Savior of the world. He is the Son of God, the Author of our salvation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Son, Godly, Sacrifice

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• Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of it that you would do nothing else but ask souls of God; and, on the contrary, could a soul in mortal sin be placed before your eyes, you would do nothing but weep, and you would hate sin more than the devil himself, and always pray for the conversion of sinners.

  Mary Magdalene

  Hate, Eye, Grace

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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Past

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• The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Lying, Giving, Perfect

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• Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Ikea, Waste, Sin

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• He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

  Saint Augustine

  Vigor, May, Sin

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• The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, Broken, Grace

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.146, Vintage

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• Tourism is a mortal sin.

  Werner Herzog

  Tourism, Sin, Mortals

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• I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Pride, Names, Hatred

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• Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Passion, Soul, Would Be

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• It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin are condemned forever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned, for, as their lives have been, so also will their end be.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Fall, Soul, Depth

  "The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret".

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• For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Law, Today, Sin

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Sin, Mortals

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• It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Charity, Way, Sin

  "Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity)". Book by Thomas Aquinas, circa 1270.

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