"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

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"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

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"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

Experience, Thoughts, Vision, Light

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

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"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

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"The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

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Georges Bernanos, French Author

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"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."

Thomas Campbell, Scottish Poet

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"The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed."

DeWitt Clinton, American Politician

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"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin."

William Gurnall, English Author

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"Really to sin you have to be serious about it."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

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"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"Love, and do what you like."

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"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

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"The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's."

"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it."

"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."

"The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed."

"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."

"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."

"The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin."

"Really to sin you have to be serious about it."

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."