Shameful confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: “Self-discipline is a form of Restriction.” (That, you remember, is “The word of Sin.”) Of all the...

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love (‘be encouraged’) but not the discipline of his love (‘and sin no more’). But with the whole scope of his...

I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

No use wishing now for any other sin.

I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselves around me there, but because I’d rather sin at home, where God even announces the weather to me...

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, “Stop sinning,” it says, “Behold your...

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening...

If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.

She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.

Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body,...

When you hear men talking,” said Cornelia, “all they ever do is speak ill of women. … And I don’t quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly...

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

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)

What causes all this?””Pride. What else?

The only sin is the sin of being born

You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to...

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids...

Sin stared at him as he chewed, cream smeared across his mouth and smudged on the other side of it. It shouldn’t have been possible to glare and eat like a child at the same...

That’s the unforgivable sin, you know.””What is?””Refusing to forgive someone.””Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?” I asked incredulously.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

The strange thing about adulthood, when you’re single, is that it’s possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent...

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and...

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit (i.e. in the name of ‘evangelical liberty’). We claim liberty from all legal...

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Sloth may disguise itself as “conscientious work” and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and...

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they...

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

God lives in my soul, and I must spend my life scrubbing my soul clean of any trace of sin so that it derserves to host his presence. Repentance is a daily chore; at each...

They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human...

suppress sin”.

…so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

…Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil’s office.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said – to the consternation of her family – What...

There are flowers growing in hell. Let’s go pick them!

You’re dressed for dancing,” she said in her throaty stage voice. “Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn’t think Merris would like it.

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us,...

The truth is, the Devil’s job is easy.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?