If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
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Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
Billy Graham
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We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living fully within the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of God's divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the cross, we participate in the reversal of Adam's sin.
Michael O'Brien
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis
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There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.
Terri Blackstock
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Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.
Joyce Meyer
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Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
Reggie White
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'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
Jason Aaron
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Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.
Margaret Smith
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Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
Katherine Harris
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Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
Jon Ronson
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.
Helen Rowland
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Francis Schaeffer
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
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'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
Cary Fukunaga
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander
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Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.
Elaine Pagels
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
Ben Stein
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare
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