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Sin carries in it its own misery.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.