Sin

Baruch Spinoza Philosopher, Rationalist

Sin

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."

Sin Common Natural

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian

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"There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel."

Sin Unbelief

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Benjamin Watson Football Player

Sin

"It's a sin problem, not a skin problem."

Problem Sin Skins

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Al Smith Politician

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"Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step."

Journey Sin Steps

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

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"To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off"

Remember Sin Break Off

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Billie Burke Actress

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"Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect."

Wish Might Sin

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter

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"For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands"

Faces Alive Sin

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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer

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"To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression."

Religious Sin Dirty

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet

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"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."

Writing Sin Violence

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

Sin Tempted Measure For Measure

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"By that sin fell the angels."

Angel Sin

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher

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"It is a sin to judge any man by his post"

Men Judging Sin

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist

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"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."

Men Work Sin

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation."

Men Responsibility Sin

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Thomas Fuller Physician

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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Men Differences Sin

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor

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"it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"

Sin Skins Bones

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist

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"Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction."

Distance Sin Wrong Direction

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader

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"Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu."

Class Sin Virtue

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Malcolm Bradbury Novelist, Academic

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"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."

Christian Sin Innocence

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"Charity creates a multitude of sins."

Sin Charity Multitudes

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