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Sin Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
- Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
- There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
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- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
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- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila