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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."
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"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

"It's the fall of mankind that resulted in a sin filled atmosphere."

"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."

"Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection."

"A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness."

"A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin."
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"If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part."

"The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read."

"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper."

"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness."

"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
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