If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it read more

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt read more

Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost.

Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein.

Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein.

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.]

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.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .

. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no sin except stupidity.