Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Robert Cormier
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The statement, "Everybody sins," is a common excuse. We expect our friends to do the same bad things we do and we get angry when they don't. We tell ourselves we're not the only ones who make mistakes and we don't care if we do them because we know we'll be forgiven. The truth is that everybody sins and the terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Source: Heroes

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