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Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or loc...

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Susan CooperSilver on the Tree

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is ...

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The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wrec...

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There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin, for example.""And what...

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And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Sin is a gravitation.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wron...

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He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, i...

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We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know e...

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One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires....

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God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgivenes...

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Thomas MertonNo Man Is an Island

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer...

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And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me a...

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Thomas MertonSelected Poems of Thomas Merton

There are different kinds of fear. One of the most terrible is the sensation that you are likely to ...

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Thomas MertonThe Sign of Jonas

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would no...

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It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

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Tom ClancyExecutive Orders

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin ...

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What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of stan...

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U. G. KrishnamurtiThe Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...

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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...

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Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us...

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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...

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Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what h...

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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. E...

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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the s...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providin...

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To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but b...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. A...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is resp...

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We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupatio...

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W. Somerset MaughamThe Razor's Edge

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

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The modern skeptical world has been taught for some 200 years a conception of human nature in which ...

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Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, ...

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But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the va...

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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & ...

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves refl...

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The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so mu...

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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that...

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But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

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Zadie SmithWhite Teeth

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of the...

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Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to t...

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If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sin...

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To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the...

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She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good G...

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The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worshi...

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a ...

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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

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Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants ther...

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Amos OzA Tale of Love and Darkness

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible natur...

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Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

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Anthony de MelloOne Minute Wisdom

By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e...

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What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no har...

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Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

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Anthony BurgessEarthly Powers

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, e...

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the origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for ...

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I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior...

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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the you...

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Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...

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Bertrand RussellA History of Western Philosophy

The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature...

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Bertrand RussellThe Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner mom...

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Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't...

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Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

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The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it d...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is i...

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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

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Galatians 5:21 constitutes the most serious warning to those who may think they can sin that grace m...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Sin—plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam’s downfall—is what we are all suff...

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There is less teaching about sin, and very little warning of judgment.

Sin is a revolt against God.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will f...

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