#sins

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual. ↗

— Luke Ford

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#difference #frightened #great #his #humbled

One is punished by the very things by which he sins. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#sins #things #very #which

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#boy #brother #cousins #down #each

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. ↗

— Walter Lang

#greater #life #other #punished #sex

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#ignore #must #notice #paid #pay

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#confess #more #sell #sins #will

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter