Hence God does not blame us for sin, for it brings its own blame or punishment with it, nay more, "sin shall be no shame to man, but worship," a bold saying, which none but a mystic would dare utter.

But, sin' you cannot be a general good-man, you'll have the comfort of knowing there'll be no more fighting without you.

My besetting sin is a want of that self-respect which she has in excess.

Sin is a reality, for men to feel, recoil from, and of which one must repent.

Besetting sins, though apparently opposite ones, sad stumbling-blocks in the way of the cross, are unrestrained activity of thought and indolence: the former proceeds from earthly-mindedness; and the latter as a sure consequence from the want of heavenly-mindedness.

Beware, my son, keep thee from all uncleanness, and suffer not thyself to know that sin; and suffer never pride to have domination in thy wit, ne in thy word, that sin was the beginning of all perdition.

I take it that sin is an absolutely necessary factor in the production of the perfect man.

The sin of gold is its abuse, And not its mere possession, Wine may turn vinegar, and gold May turn men to transgression.

And better for us, perhaps, that He should not cure us at once, lest we should fancy that sin was a light thing, which we could throw off whenever we chose; and not what it is, an inward disease, corroding and corrupting, the wages whereof are death.

"Not only," he answered, "do I now give him the kiss of peace, but if his sins were a hundredfold, I would forgive them all for your prayers and for the love I bear him;" and bishop and abbot and justiciar, all by the king's orders, joined in the kiss of peace.

For this grace which we despise is the price of the blood of Jesus Christ, and the sin that we commit is an actual profanation of this very blood.

I cannot, however, but consider myself as one of the unhappy persons, who make themselves wretched by there dissatisfaction with the stations which God has placed them in; for, not to take a review of my primitive condition, and my father's excellent advice, the going contrary to which was, as I may say, my original sin, the following mistakes of the same nature certainly had been the means of my present unhappy station.

" Resting in her Saviour's love she feared no evil, his rod and his staff they comforted her; sin was her only dread.

Sin is not an intellectual toy, for philosophers to play with or define as "a limitation of being."

Sin is causin' it.

The sins which you have just related to me are infractions of the Church's laws.

It seeks to throw the bridge of love and hope across the growing bottomless abyss in which are struggling twenty-six millions of our fellow men, whose sin is their misfortune and whose poverty is their crime, who are graphically said to have been "damned into the world, rather than born into it.

The Office is a prayer, an elevation of the soul to God, and as all writers on ascetics teach, sin is a chain that binds us to earth; it is, says St. Francis, as birdlime which impedes the soul in its flight upwards.

"The fourth sin of our daies is lukewarmness.

All my sins be now unhid, Yon man before me them all doth trace.

But sin is a root-fact of the life of man.

The next sin is uncleanness.

He exhorted his hearers to let his sin and his fate be an example to them, and a warning not to give way to anger.

Those wise and righteous heathen could show their sinful neighbours that sin was death, and that God was righteous.

"Why am I what I am, when I know more and more daily what I could be?"That is the mystery; and my sins are the fruit, and not the root of it.