The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
The globalists are smart and tell us sin is fun, sin is a red-devil cheerleader.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.
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.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
