The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.
Sin Quotes
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (Measure for Measure)
The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession.
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the […]
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. (Timon of Athens)
The Bible does not at all assume to show what would have been the course of things in our race if Adam had not sinned. The Bible has however taught us one other fact about sin, namely, that all sin is transgression of law, and of course it implies intelligence of law, and voluntary action […]
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
