Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
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.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.