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Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit
There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin
If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.
Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.
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.
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.