Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.

Tony Reinke
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  1. I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin. - Edmond De Goncourt

  2. Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly. - Anonymous

  3. If it causes you to sin your soul-just walk away - Charmaine J. Forde

  4. The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated. - Victor Hugo

  5. Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God–a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image. - Praying Medic

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