“The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.”
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“It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.”
Source: Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary
Source: The Poetical Works of
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...
“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
Source: The Holy and Profane States: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings
“Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.”
Source: Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].
“If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.”
“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”
Source: The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience
Source: The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author
“Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.”
Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.”
Source: Table talk
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.”
Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)
“So many laws argues so many sins.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers
“In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.”
Source: Notebooks, 1942-1951
Source: Education and the Social Order
“Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.”
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation
Source: The Dhammapada
Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
Source: Practical Truths
Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald