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Competition is a sin.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

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

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.

Cruelty is the only sin.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

Death from sin no power can separate.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

Envy is a deadly sin!

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!