The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
The only sin is mediocrity.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.