"When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier."
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"Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life."
"Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him."
"The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all."
"Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha"
"Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules."
"Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us."
"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
"He sins against this life, who slights the next."
"You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin."
"I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills."
"The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit."
"Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude."
"The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness."
"It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought."
"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it."
"Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins."
"There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal."
"...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
"E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within."