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“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens . . . for one thousand Hells.”

Book:The White Luck Warrior

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The White Luck Warrior

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R. Scott Bakker

R. Scott Bakker is an American author known for his complex philosophical and religious themes. His works often explore morality, free will, and the ultimate meaning of the universe. Born on February 2, 1967, Bakker's career began in the 1990s with the publication of his short stories. His first novel, 'The Darkness That Comes Before,' was published in 2004 and quickly gained widespread acclaim. more

“The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning.”

Sin

Book:The Problem of Pain

Source: The Problem of Pain

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Christ Sin Salvation

Author:John Duncan

“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?”

Sin Lust Hypocrisy Misogyny Homosexuality Vice Pedophilia Monks

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed, but he might be the only one that could justify it.”