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Letter "S" » sins
«The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.»
«We are punished by our sins, not for them.»
«We are not punished for our sins, but by them»
«The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Improvement
| Keywords:
deficiencies, divine grace, errors, first step, improvement, mental deficiency, sins
«The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
and others, classes, consequences, defect, ethics, fundamental, grounds, labels, sins, social class, social classes
«To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Humanity,
Justice,
Sin
| Keywords:
devilish, justify, sins
«The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
body, done with, luxury, mode, pleasure, purification, recollection, recollections, regret, remains, sin, sins, The Body
«There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.»
«Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams»
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