The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.
You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
