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The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

The killing of innocent people is a sin.

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.

The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

The only sins are violations of Love.

The only sin is stupidity.

The only thing He forgets is our sins.

The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?

The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.