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Charles Kingsley

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what you respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

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William Penn

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil; his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

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Al-Anṭākī , full name Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī NULL

Question: What is the most harmful sin? Answer: The sin thou dost not know to be a sin.

Question | Sin |

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Paul Billheimer

The continuous and widespread fragmentation of the church has been the scandal of the ages. It has been Satan’s master strategy. The sin of disunity probably has caused more souls to be lost than all other sins combined.

Church | Satan | Scandal | Sin |

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Joan Chittister, fully Sister Joan D. Chittister

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

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Robert McAfee Brown

Most newspaper headlines are more effective examples of man’s sin writ large than any book on theology can ever hope to be.

Hope | Man | Sin | Theology |

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Herbert Butterfield, fully Sir Herbert Butterfield

In the kind of world that I see in history there is one sin that locks people up in all their other sins… the sin of self-righteousness.

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Lydian Emerson, also Lidian Emerson, born Lydia Jackson

The only sin which people never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Opinion | People | Sin | Forgive |

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Father Cuthbert

Until a man realizes sin as the death of his own higher self and as a rebellion against the law of his true happiness, there is no true conversion of heart towards the higher life.

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Mary Baker Eddy

Both sin and sickness are error, and Truth is their remedy.

Error | Sin | Truth |

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Charles Fillmore

It is not a crime to be rich, nor a virtue to be poor… The sin lies in hoarding wealth and keeping it from circulating freely to all who need it.

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Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

The challenge is to hate the sin but love the sinner.

Challenge | Hate | Love | Sin |

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Ellen Goodman

We are at ease with a moral judgment made against someone’s private sin - lust or greed. We are much less comfortable judging someone’s public ethic - those decisions that can lead to such outcomes as aggression, the abuse of the environment, the neglect of the needy.

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Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley

The doctrine of original sin is a theological perversion of natural fact. It is a fact that all human beings begin life with an equipment of instincts, impulses, and desires, at war with one another and often out of harmony with the realities of eth physical, social, and spiritual world. Sin and the sense of sin will always be with us, to torture and weigh down; but… the religion of the future will try to prevent men’s being afflicted with the sense of sin, rather than encourage it, and then attempt to cure it.

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Edwin Lewis

What did Resurrection mean but victory over death and therefore victory over sin and therefore evidence of a new power at work in the world and therefore the opening of the gates of a new life?

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