“You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.”
Source: The Nick Adams Stories
“W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,
Who say to us in slander's breath
That love belongs to sin and death.”
Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“We’re animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin…”
Source: Turn Darkly
“I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!”
“Aku percaya, tak pernah ada kata salah untuk cinta.”
Source: Coming Home
“Be it sin or no, I hate the man!”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“Don't pity this sinful world!
Just pity those who made it so!”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness;–and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction.”
Source: Introduction to the Devout Life