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Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

When we strive to keep the commandments of God, repenting of our sins and promising our best efforts to follow the Savior, we begin to grow in confidence that through the Atonement everything will be all right.

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

Where there is division, there is sin.

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.