it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.
We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.
To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.
Dying is not a sin. Not living is.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Avoid sin:. . . all your deeds are faithfully recorded.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
