Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin – a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was […]
Sin Quotes
To be honest, as a humanist I don’t much like the idea of sin. But given the choice of being powerless in the face of God or an impotent client of a therapist, I side with the Church. Therapeutic definitions of addiction elevate the sense of human powerlessness to a level unimaginable in medieval times. […]
He that plots secret crime his soul within – Is straightaway guilty of the actual sin.
Wou’d I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou’d she cou’d make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.
Every sin is the result of collaboration.
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
Oh people, know that you have commited great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not commited great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!
What are these sins? What has the human race done that was so bad, except to eat of the tree of knowledge? Does anybody need to save man from his sins in a miraculous way? It is an absurd piece of theology which they themselves say that you must accept on faith because your reason […]
