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Sin Quotes by John Donne
- Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in…
- Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
- Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what…
- In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
- Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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