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Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

By that sin fell the angels.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Cathleen Falsani: What is sin? Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values.

Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Competition is a sin.

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

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

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

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.

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

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

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

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

Death from sin no power can separate.

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!