Quotes with sin-concealing

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  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Gail Godwin If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bill Hybels If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Hyman G. Rickover If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.
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  • Bill Hybels If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Jean Baudrillard In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Woody Allen In my family, the biggest sin was to buy retail.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Mae West It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore It is a sin to be poor.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is rarely a mistake.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adam Clarke It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bernard Paine It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
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