sin Quotes

“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man!”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; but, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

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“Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end: wherefore the higher the end which attaches to sins in human acts, the graver the sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“this is one of the most decisive definitions for all Christianity—that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

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