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Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

One sin another doth provoke.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Pleasure is the bait of sin