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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.


St. Aurelius Augustine

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Its one thing to forsake sin and quiet another to be forsaken by sin because to abstain from sin whe...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The greatest way to save our sin from God's grace is to set a passionate freedom to abstain from it
BOAZ AKUDE I was once a fugitive to sin. I ran from one sin, to the next sin.
SUSIE L HILL Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all ...
BIBLE Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double
GERMAN PROVERB There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin Or virtue?
UNKNOWN The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain...
JULIANA OF NORWICH I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding eve...
J. I. PACKER It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLI It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
SENECA It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to m...
MICHELANGELO The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attrib...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as th...
R.C. SPROUL Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original...
BARBARA G. WALKER Sin is serious—so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Chr...
BILLY GRAHAM The one unforgivable sin is to be boring
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Sin may separate us from God but sin may not separate God from us.
CREZ Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the pe...
FRANCIS CHAN Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ-like is it for sin ...
FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Beginning a short series on sin: Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than...
JOHN TILLOTSON Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin...
JOHN BUNYAN Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”.
JOHN PAUL WARREN To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To comm...
VICTOR HUGO It is a sin to be poor.
CHARLES FILLMORE Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth d...
BIBLE We can be convicted of sin—we can pray and confess our sin—we can repent—but the real test is ...
BILLY GRAHAM Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia
JOSé SARAMAGO Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Augustine shows clearly the religious characte...
PAUL TILLICH And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in...
HAN NOLAN The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire n...
CRISS JAMI I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It'...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Every sin can be forgiven by the heavenly Father.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants t...
CRISS JAMI The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is...
SHūSAKU ENDō He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
THOMAS SECKER He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
JOHN RUSKIN Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
JOHN BUNYAN Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer
JOHN BUNYAN It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
ABU BAKR God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free li...
JOHN WYCLIFFE What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be...
JOHN OWEN We shouldn't determine what is sin and not. If God's word declares that it's a sin; then it is. The ...
NORM TOMLINSON Big or small, sin is sin!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR To be responsible is to redeem society from ills stemming from faces of sin
SUNDAY ADELAJA Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin?
Master of Stupidity: No stupidity, no sin.
TOBA BETA Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each ...
SAID NURSI An absolute way of becoming sin-free is by experiencing the aftermath of committing sin and then hat...
WOHI PURANA We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual d...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN One who is allowed to sin, sins less
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
JOHN MILTON The ultimate objective of human life is to be free from sin.
YAJUR VEDA Sin becomes sin, not only when you let it in_ but the moment you open the door and shake hands with ...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have ...
JOHN MURRAY Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
JOSEPH PRINCE I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t ...
DAN PEARCE there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM Your brain and intelligence is not to be a slave to sin
SUNDAY ADELAJA The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
DWIGHT L. MOODY 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil
DANIEL DEFOE A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that h...
CRISS JAMI To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Soy un poeta sin ningún precepto
pero digo, sin lástima y sin pena:

no hay asesino...
PABLO NERUDA To argue from mercy to sin is the devil's logic
JAMES JANEWAY Sin as a 'fact' should no more be subjected to experiment.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA There is a price to pay for sin, and the sin is overpriced for the consequences in which it cost.
SUSIE L HILL That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - t...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen,
ERIC ALTERMAN But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
BIBLE It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
GEORGES BERNANOS The major sin is the sin of being born.
SAMUEL BECKETT The only sin is the sin of being born
SAMUEL BECKETT To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no ...
ROBERT FROST There is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE There is no sin except stupidity.
OSCAR WILDE God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has t...
FRANCIS CHAN To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

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MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
MARCUS AURELIUS Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anger cannot be dishonest.
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