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Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

Adore God, abhor sin.

A fallow field is a sin.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

All complaining comes from pride.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.

Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.