I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only sin is mediocrity.
There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
Sin carries in it its own misery.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
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