Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.
THOMAS DEKKER, The Noble Spanish Soldier
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The foulest sinner of all is the hypocrite who makes a racket of religion.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange Land
Sinners are made up of contradictions: contradictions to truth and reason, to God, to themselves, and to one another.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
If a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange Land
If it were not for sin, we should converse together as angels do.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Black sin is oft white truth, that missed its way.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Twin-Born"
God laid no foundation of wickedness in the principles of His creation; it is an unnatural super-structure of our own, without a foundation.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
In the lower degree of sin, God is neglected; in the higher degree of sin, God is affronted.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
There are sins or (let us call them as the world calls them) evil memories which are hidden away by man in the darkest places of the heart but they abide there and wait. He may suffer their memory to grow dim, let them be as though they had not been and all but persuade himself that they were not or at least were otherwise. Yet a chance word will call them forth suddenly and they will rise up to confront him in the most various circumstances, a vision or a dream, or while timbrel and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquillity of the evening or at the feast at midnight when he is now filled with wine. Not to insult over him will the vision come as over one that lies under her wrath, not for vengeance to cut off from the living but shrouded in the piteous vesture of the past, silent, remote, reproachful.
The malignity of sin does, in time, vitiate the principles of Nature; and the sinner comes to live entirely by sense and passion, who has been wont to put a violence upon judgment, reason, and conscience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.
ANNE RICE, Memnoch the Devil
Sin is the failure of a fallible creature; and reversible by repentance.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
One carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO & CHUCK HOGAN, The Fall
It is sinful to have enmity against aught but sin.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
The worst of evil befalling sinners is not an infliction from without, but arises out of the guilt of conscience within.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
A sinner is an incendiary and sets the world on fire.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
- If I could just hide
- The sinner inside
- And keep him denied
- How sweet life would be
- If I could be free
- From the sinner in me
DEPECHE MODE, "The Sinner in Me"
If God had pardoned Sin without any amends, God would have been thought to countenance Sin: and Man would have thought Sin no great matter.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
- The damage is done
- And I feel diseased
- I'm down on my knees
- And I need forgiveness
- Someone to bear witness
- To the goodness within
- Beneath the sin
- Although I may flirt
- With all kinds of dirt
- To the point of disease
- Now I want release
- From all this decay
- Take it away
DEPECHE MODE, "To Have and To Hold"
God is the creditor of that punishment which is due upon Sin; and He has the right of abating, as well as the right of exacting.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
When the sinner hath used his liberty to repent, and God hath used his prerogative to pardon, the sin which hath been, is as if it had not been.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
He that wrongs any creature, sins against God, the creator.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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