To know that sin is sinful is to become conscious of the will of God, to become conscious of a good and perfect will to which our own ought to be conformed.
Not till man knew that sin was sinful could he either wish for or receive a Saviour.
They said that God could justly damn his children for the sin of Adam, and that he could justly save his children on account of the sufferings and virtues of Christ; that is to say, on account of his own sufferings and virtues.
Is it a sin to deny this, and to deny the inspiration of a book that teaches it?
Nothing can exceed the foolishness of these two ideas--first: "Man can be justly punished forever for the sin of Adam.
And yet, what shall we say of one who declared that the sin against the Holy Ghost was the only one that could not be forgiven, and then left an ignorant world to guess what that sin is?
Well, while I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich.
Nothing could be more unjust, more ferocious, than this; and yet it can hardly be said to exceed in cruelty the announcement that a certain sin was unpardonable and then fail to define the sin.
The other is that a man can justly be damned for the sin of another.
Voleur *Quand les voleurs se battent, les larcins se découvrent = When thieves fall out, honest men get their own.
Nous verrons ce qu’il a dans le corps = We will see what he is made of.
Hun ligger paa Knæ paa en Sten og øser Vandet op i sin hule Haand for at vaske sit Ansigt rent.
I de tætteste Bladkrat højt oppe over Jorden mødes den med sin Mage og stjæler siden Plads til sine Æg i Smaafuglenes Reder.
Pludselig for at lede Tankerne hen paa noget andet, bukker hun sig ned, tager Knors op og skænker i sin Kop, skønt hun endnu kun har drukket det halve.
The discontinuance of a sin is always the commencement of a struggle.
And therefore all we have related in Two long octaves, pass'd in a little minute; But in the same small minute, every sin Contrived to get itself comprised within it.
Julian was almost driven to believe that sin and purity can dwell together in one woman, yet never have intercourse.
Cuckoo was sheathed in armour from head to foot against sinand its wages.
I wanted sin more than I wanted anything in heaven or earth.
It seemed to me that I was missing a great deal, missing the delight sin is said to give to natures, or at least missing the invigorating necessity you have just mentioned, the necessity to fight, to wage war against impulses.
And he tried to drag her away, that she might sin only once again with him, with him, her saviour.
When I saw you, I understood thatsin degrades one's self, Valentine.
The man fell again into the mire, and was left there at the conclusion of the piece, but hugging a different sin, not the sin he had been embracing when the curtain rose upon the first act.
Nature can write down the truth of a sinbetter than art.
The stage was a waving sea of scarlet, through which one white woman floated, like a sin with pale cheeks in the midst of the rubicund virtues.
But his longing to be able to desire sin did not lead him to desire it actually.
He has improved upon Berlioz, if it is improvement to cry sin with a clearer, more determinate voice.
But the rains are so uncertain that the farmer's subsistence is precarious, and famines claim thousands of victims.
He began his missionary work in Bangkok, Siam, but was transferred by our Missionary Union to Swatow, with the view of opening China to our missionary efforts.
Who can measure the corrupting influence of this temple upon the lives of the people over a wide area in Assam?
The avenue leading to the temple is lined with shops where mementoes of the goddess may be purchased, as in Ephesus of old silver shrines might be bought in honor of the great goddess Diana.
In the struggle with sin, there is no atonement for the transgressions of the past, and no prospect of perfection in the future.
Few people, however, read the writing upon the stones.
Displeased with her unfaithfulness, he seized her, and with her as his captive he flew through the air, and as he flew, he cut her in pieces.
To die in Benares, and to have a temple for a tomb, is the surest passport to happiness in a future state, since the transmigration of souls into higher or lower forms is an essential doctrine of modern Hinduism.
And there we had the unusual privilege of seeing the sunrise tipping with rosy light the snowy peak of Kinchinjinga, twenty-eight thousand feet high and forty-six miles away.
So far as they conform to government standards of thoroughness, they receive government grants of financial aid.
It is the second largest port on earth for exports and imports, over six hundred million dollars' worth in a year.
The sense of guilt is so dull in Hinduism, that sin is little more than external and physical impurity, and may be simply failure to conform to a prescribed act of ceremonial worship.
Only an ancestral sin can explain man's universal ignorance and depravity.
There is no atonement for past sin nor escape from its consequences, but by the giving up of being.
Les finances sont en ce moment dans un pétrin impossible = The finances are in horrible disorder just now.
Tenir Il ne tint à rien qu’ils ne se battissent = They were within an ace of fighting.
Je m’y perds = I am getting bewildered; I cannot make head or tail of it.
It could and should preach the doctrine that sin and defilement of the hearts are not removed by such an easy method as the rite implies and the masses believe.
In Shinto, sin is little, if anything, more than physical impurity.
Whether the use of purificatory water is to be traced to the sense of moral or spiritual sin is doubtful to my mind; in view of the general nature of primitive Shinto.
