We’re a divided country on sexual issues. That’s why every news cycle brings more controversy.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like ‘wormwood and gall’), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God’s love, new every morning. God’s mercy...

Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory,...

The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it will recoil on anyone who tries to deploy it that way.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a...

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast...

The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must...

When your heart is gripped by the love of God poured out in the cross, and when you see the extent of that love in the propitiation by which Christ became the sacrifice for your...

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don’t even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel’s book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is...

The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good...

I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded...

Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to...

Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we’ll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia...

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her...

…sin is separation.

Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father—as a spirit...

1868. Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:by participating directly and voluntarily in them;by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;by not...

Be annoyed and sin not” ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the...

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don’t overdo it.

Flowers of sin, like some black sun,Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors

You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.

Whether or not I protect the weeds isn’t a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends...

The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some...

…when it comes time for punishment for our sins, surely it’s only the person who’s done wrong who’s expected to pay?”Sister Agnes smiled, “Not even them, if they’ve accepted the Savior.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin ‘¦ I poked a badger with a spoon.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it’s their nature to do it.

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. ‘Odd, isn’t it,’ he said, ‘that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and...

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

We’re more concerned about our own “victory” over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God’s heart.

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down...

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.

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the...

Paul tells us that, “The wages of sin is death.” That’s the bill. Our choice to sin has created a barrier between us and God, taken a toll on our relationship with Him that we...