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"The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities."
"That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination."
"If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it."
"Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less."
"When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection."
"The seed of sin is in us when we are born."
"He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me."
"Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self."
"Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make."
"Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin."
"The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it."
"It is a sin to write this."
"Wearing something that you're not comfortable in is the ultimate sin. It's important for each person to discover their own style, and find something that is not trendy or too revealing or anything that would get in the way of working."
"The absurd is sin without God."
"It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me."
"The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal."
"But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred."
"How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?"
"Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it."
"Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon."
