Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Sin Quotes
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Manlike it is to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christlike it is for sin to grieve, Godlike it is all sin to leave.
Modern man’s loss of a sense of being sinful doesn’t spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.
But the first thing next morning we reflected If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with.
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
