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• Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

  Joseph Campbell

  Selfish, Roots, Desire

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• Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

  John Owen

  Killing, Mortification, Daily Work

  John Owen (1842). “The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging”, p.9

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• Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, History, Silent

  "Mitteilungen ueber GoetheBo". Book by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, II. 9, 1810.

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• The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Comfort, Deeds

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

  John Owen

  Done, Way, Spirit

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

  John Owen

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• Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Pride, Men, Conceit

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.

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• We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Doe, Looks

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• Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

  Cyril Connolly

  Christian, Atheism, Poison

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• Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Punishment, Speak

  William Cowper (1872). “Table Talk”, p.58

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• Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

  John Milton

  Law, Weak, Remove

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Said, Impulsive

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

  John Owen

  Mortification, Believer, Ought

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Offence, Offenders

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136

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• Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Bears, Grants

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• Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

  Philip Massinger

  Numbers, Example, Casts

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• Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mistake, Fool, Epitaph

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• Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.

  John G. Lake

  Men, Thinking, May

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• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Luxury, Done

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books

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• Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.32, SPCK

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• It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Committed, Seems, Monstrous

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• Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Art, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 546, 1895.

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• Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sides, Stealing, Side Effects

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• When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Giving, Support, Heaven

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• And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Atonement

  "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

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