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“To sin is to try, but fall short. Of course we cannot get it right each time - and so we try again.”

Book:The Essex Serpent

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“Sin makes a man unhappy and makes him feel inferior. Being unhappy, he is likely to make claims upon other people which are excessive and which prevent him from enjoying happiness in personal relations. Feeling inferior, he will have a grudge against those who seem superior. He will find admiration difficult and envy easy.”

Happiness Sin Envy

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Blaming is a childish act.”

Sin Creation Eden Pointing Fingers Blaming Childish

Author:Toba Beta

“Never do anything which you know perfectly well is going to be the means of temptation to you. If you know that certain things, which may not be bad in and of themselves, generally get you down and you are a worse person afterwards than you were before, do not do them; never, as it were, provide yourself with the occasion to sin.”

Sin Temptation Sanctification

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“I tell him of damnation, but I doubt he fears anything but the darkness in his own mind.”

Sin Damnation

Book:The Silver Devil

Source: The Silver Devil

“Sin is the fate prepared by the individual when he disowns himself and makes of himself a mere object. Man does not fall into the sin of his fate, but into the fate of his sin.”

Sin

Book:Essence of Judaism

Source: Essence of Judaism

“They want to kill your power to dream, to want happiness. But you can’t let that stop you. You can’t let them win. We deserve this happiness, and more. We should forgive ourselves for our fathers’ misdeeds. And stop punishing ourselves for their crimes. Because otherwise, it was all for nothing.”

Love Sin Love Quotes And Sayings Sinner Sins

Book:And then the Devil Cried: Episode One

Source: And then the Devil Cried: Episode One

“It is better to turned many souls from sin than to make them stumble in sin.”

Christian Motivation Faith Hope Sin Salvation Repent Stumble

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“He had a semicircle tattoo with an indecent word on the back of his head, suggesting all people around him to leave him alone – in a much more impolite manner.”

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Book:All for one

Source: All for one

“If we seek purity, we shall pray.”

Christian Prayer Sin Purity Confession

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Perhaps we no longer know what it means to repent because we no longer know what it means to sin.”

Sin

Book:The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace

Source: The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace

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