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title: "4 Publicans Sinners Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dag-hammarskj-ld/jesus-lack-of-moral-principles-he-sat-at-meat-with-publicans-and/)

[Dag Hammarskjöld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dag-hammarskj-ld/)

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> [The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/the-people-who-kill-and-torture-and-tell-lies-in-the-name-of-their/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bytheway/i-ve-noticed-that-there-is-danger-in-spending-all-this-time-writing/)

[John Bytheway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bytheway/)

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> [We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-c-berkouwer-3/we-can-hardly-say-that-the-pharisees-had-an-accurate-knowledge-of-man/)

[G. C. Berkouwer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-c-berkouwer-3/)

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