“We must treat these girls respectfully, in a godly fashion, despite the moral stain from their lives before.”— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com
“Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.”— John Knox, goodreads.com
“We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impu…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Alone at last, we can sin and fight. And I’ve lost all faith in this blurring light. But stay right here, we can change our plight; storming through this, despite what’s right.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say ‘you are a sinner,’ and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“People have wondered where the seat of original sin is; I think it 's in the stomach. A man eats too much and neglects exercise, and the Devil has him all his own way, and the little imps, with their long black fingers, play on his nerves like a piano. Never overwork either body or mind, boys. All t…”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“Most people are not bad. Oh, they do bad things sometimes, and everyone has a little badness in them, but very few people are unspeakably evil, and most of the bad things they do seem perfectly reasonable to them at the time. Perhaps they’re bored, or selfish, or greedy, but, for the most part, they…”— John Connolly, amazon.com
“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”— J.C. Ryle, amazon.com
“Help each other in righteousness and piety, but help not one another in sin and transgression.”— 05:02 (Surah al-Ma'idah), amazon.com