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For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...
Gerald Gould
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
Martin Luther King Jr.
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
C.S. Lewis
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they
Sean O'Casey, Rose And Crown, "I
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
Scottish Proverb
Make peace with man and war with your sins.
Proverb
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles
Mahatma Gandhi
Was joy created always to live under that threat? Always defenseless to those who would rather be miserable than have their self will be crossed? Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs?The demand of the loveless; that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe; that til they consent to be happy-on their own terms- no one else shall taste joy; that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to VETO HEAVEN?
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out
Mark Twain
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arabic Proverb
Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
William Cowper
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity
George Bernard Shaw
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.
Charles Lamb
Even the sinning of the regenerate man differs essentially from that of the unregenerate man.
R. B. [Rienk Bouke] Kuiper
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Bernard Mandeville
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Cyril Connolly
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.For in best understandings sin began,Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched weAre beasts in all but white integrity.
John Donne, To Sir Henry Wotton
