The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us.

I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin’s power over me has been broken, in Jesus’ name!

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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