One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
JOHN BUNYAN, The Pilgrim's Progress
Our justification from sins takes place at the point of saving faith, not at the point of water baptism, which usually occurs later. But if a person is already justified and has sins forgiven eternally at the point of saving faith, then baptism is not necessary for forgiveness of sins nor for the bestowal of new spiritual life. Baptism, then, is not necessary for salvation. But it is necessary if we are to be obedient to Christ, for he commanded baptism for all who believe in him.
WAYNE GRUDEM, Bible Doctrine
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Doctor Wortle's School
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN, Palamon and Arcite
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.
E.J. DIONNE, JR., The War Against Public Life
There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "Young Goodman Brown"
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Devil's Disciple
- Think gently of the erring:
- Oh! do not thou forget,
- However darkly stained by sin
- He is thy brother yet.
JULIA CARNEY, Think Gently of the Erring
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