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Splashing water on her face, she glanced up into the mirror and regarded her reflection with dismay. The thing they never tell you about sin, she thought, is how it returns you, over and over, to the same terrible place, a precursor of eternity in hell.

— David Corbett, Babylon Sister | Narrative Magazine

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There is latent homophobia in our community. They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It's absurd.

— Al Sharpton, Sharpton Pledges Fight Against Homophobia Among Blacks

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

— Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom

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At my age, how much can I sin? What, I had an impure thought? I'd kill to have an impure thought.

— Terry Grossman and Kathy Speer, The Golden Girls, Season 2: Forgive Me, Father

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

— Mark Twain, Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America’s Most-Revered Humorist

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Why is the best fruit always forbidden?

— Cardi B, Girls Like You (feat. Cardi B) (Red Pill Blues (Deluxe)

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Oh, I wanna come near and give ya Every part of me But there's blood on my hands And my lips aren't clean

— Leon Bridges, River

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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched
infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am
compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate
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— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

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Human beings are still capable of violence and cruelty. We all succumb to sin. But look back at any preceding century or even just a few decades, and you will see cruelty, violence and misery on a scale that is, with few exceptions, unknown today.

— John McCain, via en.wikiquote.org

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Help each other in righteousness and piety, but help not one another in sin and transgression.

— 05:02 (Surah al-Ma'idah), The Quran

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Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say ‘you are a sinner,’ and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

— Timothy Leary, Amoral Science, Brainless Religion

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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.
For to be social is to be forgiving.

— Robert Frost, The Star-Splitter

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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor: A Novel

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There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places.

— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.

— John Calvin, John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)

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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

— J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer

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The only thing wrong with the seven deadly sins is that there aren't more of them.

— Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton), Westworld, Season 1: Chestnut

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We are all full of sin. No pure human being exists. But no matter what we do, we never fall any lower than into God's hands.

— Noah (Mark Waschke), Dark, Season 1: Everything is Now

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I'm a lover, in need of confession.

— BØRNS, Holy Ghost (Dopamine)

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They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

— Brigitte Bardot, via www.amazon.com

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community

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The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community

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