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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

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

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

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

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

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

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.