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"So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history."
"Birds never sing in caves."
"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."
"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
"Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time."
"What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at."
"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
"He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour."
"Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved."
"Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin."
"Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death."
"A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross."
"I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me."
"Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins."
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
"If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon."
"He who complains, sins."
"Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed."
"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality"
"Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness."
