To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only sin is mediocrity.
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.
A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.