If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it for your God—your God—is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors

A sin concealed is half-pardoned

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double

It is a public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress