Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark...
Lo que realmente sucedía es que para ella el mundo había empezado a girar sin que estuviera en él. Se sentía apartada, solitaria, encerrada en sí misma, indiferente a lo que la rodeaba, sin que nada pudiese hacerla alegrarse profundamente, llora...
God forgives the sin of gluttony.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
Boredom is the father of all sins.
Idleness is the beginning of all sin.
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Our sins are sins of language.
Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.
...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29
People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin!
Hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin pájaros; hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin agua; en lo que a mi se refiere, soy incapaz de imaginar un mundo sin libros.
Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous desire would be oppr...
A sin that is hidden is half forgiven.
Old sins, new shame.
