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Sin Quotes by Herbert Butterfield
- The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history ...…
- But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find…
- It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of…
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- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
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- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
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- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet