"The only sin in the world is ignorance."
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"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."
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"We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin."
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"Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning."
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"It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!"
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"Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it."
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"The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk."
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"I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth."
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"We are all more than the sum of our sins."
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"I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say."
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"Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession."
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"We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win."
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"Thou mayest rule over sin."
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"God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten."
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"Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before."
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"A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin."
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"The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God."
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"Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God."
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"Take away the motive, and you take away the sin."
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"A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself"
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