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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

I look upon pride as a sin.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?