I answer that, Two things have to be considered in sin, namely, the proneness to sin, and the motive for sinning.
If, then, in the angels we consider the proneness to sin, it seems that the higher angels were less likely to sin than the lower.
The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
It was, of course, desirable to know a great deal more than could have been asked for or published with propriety, such as the proneness of particular families to grave constitutional disease.
This man feeleth the infirmity of his flesh, he findeth a proneness in himself to be desperate.
From the infirmity of our natures, and our proneness to evil, there is nothing so corrupting as the statistics of vice.
One of the most singular affections of the human mind is a proneness to excessive speculation; and it may here be noticed that the disease for (such it may be termed) is peculiarly English and American.
To him may also be ascribed that proneness to multiply ultimate and original principles in human nature, which characterised the Scottish School till the second extinction of a passion for metaphysical speculation in Scotland.
In the meantime his pecuniary difficulties are increasing upon him, conflicting with his proneness to pleasure and expense, and contributing by the harassment of his mind to the wear and tear of his constitution.
The only blemish that could be brought against him was of a moral nature--as already mentioned, a proneness to dissipation.
Mr. Moncure Conway, in his autobiography, gives an amusing reminiscence of Bret Harte's proneness to escape from what are known as "social duties.
There is no passage in the Christian or Hebrew Scriptures on which, as concerning the ash, the Talmudists or Targumists could in such proneness build anything mysterious.
Malice is not to be taken here as a sin, but as a certain pronenessof the will to evil, according to the words of Gen.
But in so far as it denotes a proneness to sin, it is contrary to the Divine law, and has not the nature of law, as stated above (Q.
The variety is much greater, but many, from their porous nature and proneness to decay, are of very little value, and scarcely admit of seasoning before they become rotten.
Do you think that the Prophet refers in that passage to man's naturalproneness to evil?
I was conversing once with a colleague who belonged to this class, on man's natural proneness to evil.
From his proneness to frequent the tavern's jovial company of topers and gamesters naturally sprang a liberal supply of drinking songs.
In him were blended two qualities--vigorous activity and proneness to austere meditation--rarely combined in such measure in one person.
With a discerning eye Clarendon read the prevailing defects of the Stuart race--their proneness to succumb to flattery and vicious influence, and then obstinately to sacrifice every good inclination to the acquired vice.
