We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Love is trembling happiness.

There is no sin except stupidity.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Sin is geographical.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.