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"At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation."
"If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die."
"Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin."
"The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand."
"If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty."
"Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally."
"It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil."
"Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything."
"God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!"
"Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded."
"While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it."
"So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee."
"From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion."
"Cowardice is the greatest sin."
"Sin contains its own judgement and punishment."
"Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless."
"It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness."
"Patriotism covers a multitude of sins."
"We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be."
"The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it."
