We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
Remorse is the pain of sin.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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.
There is no sin but ignorance.
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