One who is allowed to sin, sins less.
Sin Quotes
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.
What death is to the body, Sin is to the soul, but worse.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18)
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else!
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
