"Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."
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"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices."
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"Proverty and wealth are comparative sins."
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"I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy."
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"On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins."
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"Cathleen Falsani: What is sin? Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values."
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"Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin."
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"The greatest sin is to be unconscious."
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"Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness."
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"Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins."
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"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."
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"And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith."
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"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
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"Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books."
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"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."
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"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
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"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."
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"Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die."
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"God does not punish us for our sins but by them."
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"Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people."
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