Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
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Sins Not
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Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same."
D. A. Carson
Theologian
"Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."
Edward Reynolds
Author
"God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous."
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"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."
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"We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained."
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"Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth."
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"Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius."
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"He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner."
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"To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'"
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