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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Eye, Men

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• Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

  Horace Bushnell

  Promise, Remedy

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.249

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• My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Black, Together, Sun

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• A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

  Francis Atterbury

  Firsts, Steps, Sturdy

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• Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.

  Joseph Cook

  Joseph Cook (1881). “The Boston Monday Lectures”

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• There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Heaven, Infidelity, Forgiving

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• A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Doe, Reason

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• Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Sleep, Ships, Vexation

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• You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Done, Shells, Goes On

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given,
  That brought into this world a world of woe,
  Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,
  Death's harbinger.

  John Milton

  Shadow, World, Woe

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.125

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• We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Conflict, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

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• One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.269, Modern Library

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• We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Appreciate, Soul

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Spiritual, Exercise, Offending

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Natural Instinct, Hell

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• It is a sin to do less than your best.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

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• There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

  Multatuli

  Heart, Evil, Crime

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• To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Religion, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self, Soul, Inability

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• When we talk about sin, we need to understand what sin is. Sin is not God says 'you can't do this' because He wants to take something away from you. He says: "If you do this, it will be death. If you do this, it will be life." And then He says: "Please, choose life, so that you can live. I've made you, I know how you work. I've made this whole Earth, I know how it works. Please, choose life.

  Lacey Mosley

  Needs, Earth, Want

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• We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

  Carl Sagan

  Taken, Hands, Firsts

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

  John Owen

  Water, May, Quiet

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.11, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Kindness, People, Intention

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• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

  John Dryden

  Power, Want, Repentance

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 813

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