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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

The sin is in our thoughts.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

The sin that Jesus bore, and that we are now empowered to live free from, includes all the sinful warrior deity images humans throughout history have projected onto God. In this way, the cross is at one and the same time the definitive revelation of the true loving God and the "crucifixion of the warrior god". And just as we should forever revolt against the sin and that was permanently put to death on the cross, so too followers of Jesus should forever revolt against the sinful warrior image of God that was permanently put to death on the cross.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.