I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.
Augustine of HippoTags: sin idolatry wickedness
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
C.S. LewisTags: men free-will sin angels
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
Peter KreeftTags: inspirational love philosophy christianity god sin salvation jesus spirituality theology cross catholicism christ saved the-cross saved-souls jesus-shock excess-love
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
R.C. Sproulbut this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
G.K. ChestertonTags: prison sin crime disease
A man of logic is a man of sin.
Mike NortonTags: science knowledge sin logic
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William FaulknerTags: words sin salvation inadequacy-of-words
At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.
Laura EsquivelPeople create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin!
C. JoyBell C.Tags: humanity dogma sin sin-created-by-man the-error-of-sin the-state-of-humanity
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