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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
Sin

"If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?"

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
Sin

"Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more."

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