When a creature becomes cleansed of all his sins in course of millions of births in diverse orders of being, it is then that devotion springs up in his heart for Mahadeva.
Those men who have deliberately committed sins meet with destruction by seeking to conceal them from the good.
By fasting for a fortnight and bathing in Mahaganga and Krittikangaraka, one becomes cleansed of all one's sins and ascends to heaven.
Whenever a deserving guest seeks the hospitality of a householder and is not honoured by him, he takes away (with him) all the virtues of the latter giving him hissins (in return).
The gift of a single Kapila cow is capable of cleansing whatever sins the giver may be guilty of even if those sins be as grave.
The man who daily reads these ordinances or hears them read, becomes freed from sins of every kind.
Those men, O sire, who worship Bhava even mentally, succeed in freeing themselves from all sins and attain to a residence in heaven with all the gods.
By reciting the names of the Tirthas, by performing ablutions there, and by offering oblations to the Pitris in those places, one's sins are washed off.
It is the most auspicious of all auspicious things, and is capable of cleansing the heart from all sins however heinous.
If after committing numerous sins a person makes gifts of earth unto members of the regenerate class, he casts off all those sins like a snake casting off its slough.
A fourth part of whatever sins are committed by the subjects clings to that king who does not protect, O Bharata.
As snakes become deprived of their poison at the very sight of Garuda, even so one becomes cleansed of all one's sins at the very sight of the sacred stream of Ganga.
I do not mind how many sins a man is angry with provided they include the sins he is addicted to himself and that are at his own door.
There is a flavour of hypocrisy in much of this anger against sins that are outside the circle of one's own responsibility.
Tolstoi never shocked Europe more than a hair's weight so long as he blundered through the seven sins like nearly any other man of his class.
By kicking our neighbours down for their sins we secure for ourselves, it seems, a better place on the ladder.
We can forgive almost all sins except those that inconvenience us.
Saints have even been known to thank God for theirsins as the means of their salvation.
Even when we admit our ownsins we are half in love with them.
Not, indeed, that it is always the sins that shock us most.
But Miriam was far on the way of those who recognize themselves as overmastered by temptation, and grow almost reckless in the sins they cannot resist.
I do not like to think of his wife suffering, but it is the attribute of sins such as his that they involve the innocent with the guilty; and then she has shown herself so wretchedly weak.
The Lady Anne might confess her own sins, but her confession of the sins of others was not a confession at all, and could have carried no validity unless supported by other evidence.
The sins of the clergy had at last found them out.
To call Ghosts immoral is a silly and an illogical proceeding, for it is, if it is anything at all within the domain of morals, a dramatic setting of the biblical wisdom that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children.
Let us be scarlet, said these wild, young fellows, let our sins be splendid!
A body can't go to church to pray for the sins of her neighbours without meddle-some old men entering unbidden a decent house and setting every one by the ears!
To become greater than oursins is worth more than all the purity you preach.
And our most catholic Philip can forgive all sins except those which lose him money--so Master Raphael finds himself in a tight place!
They purified themselves with water; they offered up loaves on the altars; they confessed their sins in loud tones.
For the devil is always hungry for noble human souls; and to him who catches one for him he gives indulgence for his sins for an hour.
Is it not rare good fortune to see oursins transfigured to virtue; to be able to account earthly enjoyment the service of Heaven?
Therefore Gardiner catches so many souls; for since he sins every hour, every hour he needs indulgence.
Because you have nothing more to lose and the scaffold is sure of you, you do not stick at heaping up the measure of your sins a little more, and you revile your legitimate, God-appointed king!
It is to be feared, from this visitation of an ever-benign Providence, that few of them had been converted, and that the burden of their sins disabled them from swimming.
Though Swinburne muses happily over thesins of Villon, But from thy feet now death hath washed the mire, [Footnote: A Ballad of François Villon.
No more deadly insult could be offered him than forgiveness of his sins on the ground of their unimportance.
Is not society going a step too far if, after the poet's positive faults have been exhausted, it institutes a trial for his sins of omission?
Hence, as Wiggers remarks: “Augustine thought it not improbable that the sins of ancestors universally are imputed to their descendants.
Virtually, therefore, the eternal punishment is the punishment of the sins of time.
It is placed on the ground, that the sins of the world, or of those for whom Christ died, have been imputed to him; and hence he really suffers the inflictions of the retributive justice of God.
Here the distinction between God’s permitting and doing in relation to the sins of men, is declared by Calvin to be utterly without foundation in truth, and purely chimerical.
But it still remained to “reconcile God’s prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and sincerity of his counsels, exhortations, and whatsoever means he uses to prevent them.
If God, out of the abundance of his compassion, imputes the sins of parents only to the third or fourth generation, how has it happened that Adam’s transgression is imputed to all his posterity, and punished throughout all generations?
All that he seems to have seen in the case, is a poor, weak creature, utterly unable to do any good, subjected to eternal torments for the sins of “a few fleeting years on earth.
O Christ Jesus, by the wounds of Thomas loosen the sins which bind us.
Release us by command, we pray Thy sins be forgiven thee.
In the 31st psalm we read, "Blessed are they whose hearts love thee, O Virgin Mary; their sinsshall be mercifully blotted out BY THEE.
It is impossible to connect the notion of rebuke with the sins of Panurge.
The windows must be specially well shuttered, because I could not spy the smallest gleam of light from that direction; but I can't believe that those beggars would go in there only to sit and think of their sins in the dark.
In her scanty nightdress, and barefooted, she recalled a mediaeval penitent being reproved for her sins in blasphemous terms.
And they who have fled their country and quitted their homes and suffered in my cause, and have fought and fallen, I will blot out their sins from them, and I will bring them into gardens beneath which the streams do flow.
God he will make good your deliverance, and will put away your sins from you, and will forgive you.
Your sins will He forgive you, and He will bring you into gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow-into charming abodes in the gardens of Eden: This shall be the great bliss.
But not aught of their sinswill they bear-verily they are liars!
And of the sins of his servants thy Lord is sufficiently informed, observant.
If ye avoid the great sins which ye are forbidden, we will blot out your faults, and we will cause you to enter Paradise with honourable entry.
Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire; And they found that they had no helper save God.
They who, after they have done a base deed or committed a wrong against their own selves, remember God and implore forgiveness of their sins-and who will forgive sins but God only?
SAY: O my servants who have transgressed to your own hurt,11 despair not of God's mercy, for all sins doth God forgive.
You really look as if you were asking forgiveness of God for the sins that may be committed around you.
Has he been worthy of the prayers and penance I have lived in, wearing myself out to atone for his sins and my own?
Even if she sinsby his command, she will not be ultimately held answerable.
Were she but once established as Lady Erradeen, there was not one of her youthful sins that would be remembered against her.
Far worse than the general avowal of sins which she did not understand was the avowal he had to make of something which she could understand.
In short, his God is his belly, and his feasts, and the vices and sins consequent upon this.
They commit other sins and do much harm, as is notorious.
If God hears my prayers and my hopes are fulfilled, I'll say to Andoy, 'Son, take away all our sins and send us to Heaven!
I've committed more sins and yet I've never been able really to cry.
At the end of each paragraph she made a long pause in order to give the girl time to recall her sins and to repent of them.
This girl sins like a soldier against the first five and from the sixth to the tenth not a venial sin, just the opposite to us!
In vain some devout women tried to sigh and sob over the sins of the wicked; they had to desist in the attempt from lack of supporters.
For Filipino children they were rather noisy, since at the table and in the presence of other persons their sins are generally more of omission than of commission.
Your sins with all the burden of guilt were taken away and you found rest.
Oh, blessed happy day, when your sins were washed away, and love sang its sweetest lay within your soul!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
