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Sin, first and foremost, is the cause of every damage in this world. The evil one is the master of this sin, the master of this damage, but we have the Lord Jesus Christ, the Master of the Kingdom of God to defeat any kind of sin.

Your Father in Christ,
Bishop JOSEPH
http://www.antiochianladiocese.org/

Bishop Joseph
Source: http://www.antiochianladiocese.org/
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He would also say: A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise. In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man

Pirke Avot /Ethics of the Fathers
Source: Rabbi Hillel - Pirke Avot 2:5
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: Henry V. ii. 4
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
 
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If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

Kedar : Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
Kedar Joshi
Source: Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
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"I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room."

May Sarton
Source: Journal of a Solitude
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Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

The Bible
 
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God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

Kedar : Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
Kedar Joshi
Source: Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
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If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, "I repent," forgive him.

Jesus Christ
Source: Luke 17:3-4, New International Version
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"When you accustom people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins... you will have sins in abundance."

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An old woman (who happens to be a witch) and a priest are sitting by the road having a conversation.

(The conversation starts on the classic subject of "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?")

"Sixteen!"
"You've counted sixteen?" said Oats eventually.
"No, but it is as good an answer as any you'll get. And that's what you holy men discuss is it?"
"Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin, for example."
"And what do they think? Against it, are they?"
"It is not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray."
"Nope."
"Pardon?"
There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that--"
"No it ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes-"
"But they Starts with thinking about people as things…"

Terry Pratchett (1948 - )
Source: "Carpe Jugulum" by Terry Pratchett
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God made man perfectly holy and happy; and the fair earth, as it came from the Creator's hand, bore no blight of decay or shadow of the curse. It is transgression of God's law--the law of love--that has brought woe and death. Yet even amid the suffering that results from sin, God's love is revealed. It is written that God cursed the ground for man's sake. Genesis 3:17. The thorn and the thistle--the difficulties and trials that make his life one of toil and care--were appointed for his good as a part of the training needful in God's plan for his uplifting from the ruin and degradation that sin has wrought. The world, though fallen, is not all sorrow and misery. In nature itself are messages of hope and comfort. There are flowers upon the thistles, and the thorns are covered with roses.

"God is love" is written upon every opening bud, upon every spire of springing grass. The lovely birds making the air vocal with their happy songs, the delicately tinted flowers in their perfection perfuming the air, the lofty trees of the forest with their rich foliage of living green -- all testify to the tender, fatherly care of our God and to His desire to make His children happy.

Ellen White
Source: Steps to Christ, ch. 1, God's Love for Man
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The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be.  We are all perfect.  The universe is perfect.  Stop struggling against yourself.  Accept that you are perfect.  When you do, your highest self will shine through.

Michael Anthony
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Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau : American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Source: Life Without Principle, http://thoreau.eserver.org/life1.html
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.

"Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Indian spiritual and political leader, called Mahatma "great soul"
Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
 
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell : British philosopher, mathematician & social reformer
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
 
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David Brainerd-Sunday, april 4 1742

O my Blessed  God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.

David Brainerd
Source: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

Don Miguel Ruiz : Gaia Child
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

Don Miguel Ruiz : Gaia Child
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Impeccability means "without sin."Impeccable comes from the Latin pecatus, which means "sin." The im in impeccable means "without," so impeccable means "without sin." Religion talks about sin and sinners, but let's understand what it really means to sin. A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself.

Don Miguel Ruiz : Gaia Child
Don Miguel Ruiz
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"What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his question should be answered.

"It is a sin that grew within my own breast," replied Ethan Brand, standing erect, with a pride that distinguishes all enthusiasts of his stamp.  "A sin that grew nowhere else!  The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims!"

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
Source: The Minister's Black Veil
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