The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Henry Miller

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

Being seventy is not a sin.
Golda Meir

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul II

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Thomas Aquinas

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
Dwight L. Moody