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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Sin carries in it its own misery.
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
The only sin is mediocrity.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.