If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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.
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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.
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.
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.