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“If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.”

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Author:Sun Myung Moon

“Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.”

Lying Sin Overcoming Tempted Wickedness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.”

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Author:Reggie White

“He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.”

Mind Lying Sin Guilt Heavy Commit

Author:Thomas Creech

“'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.”

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Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change.”

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Book:The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success

Source: The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success

“The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.”

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Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

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Author:Romare Bearden

“There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.”

Wells May Lying Order Found Sin

Book:Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

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Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.”

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Author:Rose Macaulay

“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.”

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Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.”

World Made Facts Lying Sin Wonder Plans Made It Forbidden

Book:Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God

Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God

“Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!”

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Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.”

Heart Lying Sin Secret

Book:Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks

Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks

“Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.”

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Author:Georgia Harkness

“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.”

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Book:Girl Talk

Source: Girl Talk

“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”

Author:Alfred Nobel

“The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.”

Ifs Believe Two Lying Values I Believe Sin Views Accepting Practice Keys Tendencies Biblical Preoccupation Discerning Worldliness

Author:Jerry Bridges