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• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting, Temptation, Suffering

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• After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Firsts, Indifference

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Cost, Want

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.725, Discovery House

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• What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Progress, Essentials, Elements

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.672, GENERAL PRESS

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• To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Determined, Christ, Mockery

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

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• I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

  Joan of Arc

  Knows, Dies, God's Will

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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thankful, Gratitude, Freedom

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Christian, Sins Not

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• Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Brother, Fall, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 85), 1895.

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• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

  W. H. Auden

  Addiction, Damnation, Terminal

  A Certain World (1970) "Hell"

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• St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Kings, Pain, Loss

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Way of Salvation and of Perfection”, p.44, Aeterna Press

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• He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

  Ovid

  Ideas, Desire, Able

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• Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vanity, Vain, Conscience

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

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• Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

  Ovid

  Fate, Opportunity, Mercy

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• There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

  Mark Twain

  God, Religious, Responsibility

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Doe

  "The Complete Works of George MacDonald".

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• Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Men, Mourning

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• Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

  Gerald May

  Honesty, Risk, Doe

  Gerald G. May (1988). “Addiction and Grace”, Harper San Francisco

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• Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

  James Melvin Washington

  Sweet, Resistance, Spirit

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• If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

  George MacDonald

  Grows, Determine, Pure

  "The Hope of the Gospel".

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• There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

  Pope Gregory I

  Land, Joy, Leader

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• The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Firsts, Lucifer

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• It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

  Seneca the Younger

  Differences, Deals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Civilization, Doe

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