I can remember… when my father, as sole chief of the household, read family prayers and formally admitted that we had done those things which we ought not to have done and left undone those things which we ought to have done, which was certainly true as far as I was concerned. He added that […]
Sin Quotes
Sin goes in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays.
There is no sin except stupidity.
The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.
One who is allowed to sin, sins less.
His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.
No sin is small. It is against an infinite God, and may have consequences unmeasurable. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch.
And the Lord said: Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether, according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know’… And Abraham came near and said, […]
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
