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• Man-like is it to fall into sin,
  Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
  God-like is it all sin to leave.

  Friedrich von Logau

  Fall, Men, Grieving

  "'Sin' ('From the Sinngedichte of Friedrich von Logau')". Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Complete Poetical Works", www.bartleby.com. 1893.

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• In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

  John Donne

  Angel, Men, Understanding

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

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• There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

  James Bryce

  Men, Doors, Views

  "The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government".

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• If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

  Angelina Grimke

  Law, Suffering, Break

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin

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• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Blood, Guilt

  "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)

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• Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.

  Reginald Heber

  Passion, Sick, Remembrance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 547), 1895.

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• Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

  Maria Monk

  Faithful, Impossible, Priests

  Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.26

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• Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
  [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, History, Silent

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• Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Patents, New Inventions, Invention

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74

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• Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Dream, Men, Wicked

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.15

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• The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

  Plato

  Cutting, Men, Evil

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

  Robert Southey

  Kindness, Omission, Self

  Robert Southey (2006). “Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

  Robert Herrick

  Action, Ill

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.246

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• Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Men, Guilty

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.12

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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• There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.36, Barbour Publishing

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• Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Bible, God, Christian

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• All complaining comes from pride.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Pride, Complaining

  Twitter post from Apr 9, 2012

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• God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.102, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Forgiveness, Christian, Religious

  Robert Farrar Capon (1993). “The Mystery of Christ-- and why We Don't Get it”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good
  deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

  Ibn Rajab

  Religious, Islamic, Competition

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• Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

  Isaac Watts

  Soul, Way, Sensitive

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• The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

  Epicurus

  Salvation

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