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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has read more
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the read more
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors
is hard.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors
is hard.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea read more
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
[Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as
his eyes unto heaven, but smote read more
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as
his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be
merciful to me a sinner.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for read more
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.