“Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.” MeanFactsActionFacesEvilSinDecisionGoodnessConscienceHave FaithOur ActionsMalice Author:Pope Francis
“Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!” ThinkingGivingMeanChildrenShowsChristianJoyOrderEvilChristSinActingDarknessOur LivesSlaveryPossessionChild Of GodObeyingTrue FreedomLife And Change Author:Pope Francis
“This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.” ThinkingMeanSinGraceMissingKeysMercyStressContraryRepentanceGreat GiftsRepentance And Forgiveness Author:Thomas J. Paprocki
“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.” MenMeanDesireHeavenSinPoorLibertyGenerationsCryTelevisionWillingHonorSellsRadioSatisfactionNewspapersAdvertisingGuiltyConsumerismWoeDegradationOverconsumptionInstillLaborersDeadly Sins Author:Dorothy Day
“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.” WellsMayMeanReasonGovernmentSinAnswersPossibilityDespairPressurePunishmentIndifferenceResignation Author:Elie Wiesel
“One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.” PeopleWayGivingMeanCharacterSinAbilityPrinciplesKindnessHumilityInvolvedOne WayMotiveStrength Of CharacterGetting Along Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik
“The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.” MenMeanFeelingsChristSinLordTakenConditionsLowsConsequencePunishmentConsistentDread Author:George MacDonald
“But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.” MeanStillsHandsDesireSinDevilIllCarefulBiasedPimp Author:John Dryden