I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
The only sin is mediocrity.