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"For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior."
"Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin."
"We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight."
"If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin."
"He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it"
"Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness."
"What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?"
"the only mortal sin is giving up."
"Make-up covers a multitude of sins."
"Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins."
"I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life."
"Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented."
"I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement."
"The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence."
"I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless."
"No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism."
"The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom."
"Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime."
"He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil."