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  “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

  Oscar Wilde

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  “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

  John Green

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  “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

  Mahatma Gandhi

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  “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

  Harper Lee

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  “There is no sinner like a young saint.”

  Aphra Behn

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  “Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

  Mark Twain

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• “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  “Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

  Chuck Palahniuk

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  “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”

  Mark Twain

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  “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

  Nelson Mandela

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• “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '.
  
  Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice.
  
  I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”

  Stephen Fry

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  “To err is human - but it feels divine.”

  Mae West

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  “I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”

  Billy Joel

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  “If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”

  Nikos Kazantzakis

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• “Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility...”

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  “No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

  George Eliot

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  “And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”

  Terry Pratchett

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  “When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
  That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.
  And this was her penance.
  Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.”

  Melina Marchetta

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  “When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”

  Timothy Keller

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• “Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands (see Revelation 7:9), I shall see the prostitute from the Kit-Kat Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, who tearfully told me that she could find no other employment to support her two-year-old son. I shall see the woman who had an abortion and is haunted by guilt and remorse but did the best she could faced with grueling alternatives; the businessman besieged with debt who sold his integrity in a series of desperate transactions; the insecure clergyman addicted to being liked, who never challenged his people from the pulpit and longed for unconditional love; the sexually abused teen molested by his father and now selling his body on the street, who, as he falls asleep each night after his last 'trick', whispers the name of the unknown God he learned about in Sunday school.
  
  'But how?' we ask.
  
  Then the voice says, 'They have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.'
  
  There they are. There *we* are - the multitude who so wanted to be faithful, who at times got defeated, soiled by life, and bested by trials, wearing the bloodied garments of life's tribulations, but through it all clung to faith.
  
  My friends, if this is not good news to you, you have never understood the gospel of grace.”

  Brennan Manning

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  “Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.”

  Martin Luther

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• “What is sin?
  It is the glory of God not honored.
  The holiness of God not reverenced.
  The greatness of God not admired.
  The power of God not praised.
  The truth of God not sought.
  The wisdom of God not esteemed.
  The beauty of God not treasured.
  The goodness of God not savored.
  The faithfulness of God not trusted.
  The commandments of God not obeyed.
  The justice of God not respected.
  The wrath of God not feared.
  The grace of God not cherished.
  The presence of God not prized.
  The person of God not loved.
  That is sin.”

  John Piper

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  “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”

  Martin Luther

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  “The only sin is the sin of being born”

  Samuel Beckett

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