Morality...Religion...SIN
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1013
“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.” — Abigail Van Buren
SIN, Conscience
1014
“Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.” — John Milton
SIN, Law, Punishment
1015 H
“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.” — Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
SIN, Perception
1016
“The doing of evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SIN, Hate, Punishment, Law, War & Peace
1017
“Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.” — Tryon Edwards
SIN, Punishment, Law, Principles
1018
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
SIN, Perseverance
1019
“If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
SIN, Family & Friends
1020 H
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.” — Mae West
SIN, Decision Making
1021 C
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.” — George Bernard Shaw
SIN, Wealth, Greed, Law
1022
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a
superficial appearance of being right.” — Thomas Paine
SIN, Habit, Accountability, Goodness, Thought
1023
“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.” — Frederick William Faber
SIN, Winning, Perseverance
1024 H
“I can resist everything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde
SIN, Perseverance
1025
“Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
SIN, Conscience
1026
“Moral indignation is envy with a halo.” — H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
SIN, Envy
1027
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
— Blaise Pascal
SIN, God
1028
“Religion is too often talked of, but too little known.” — Jonathan Swift
SIN, God
1029 A
“In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.”
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
SIN, Dishonesty, Family & Friends
1030
“Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
SIN, Goodness
1031 HA
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.” — Billy Sunday
SIN, God, Perception
1032 A
“They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably
deny the sun because it is not always noon.” — Augustus Hare
SIN, Judgment
1033 A
“Although a cloth be washed a hundred times,
How can it be rendered clean and pure
If it be washed in water which is dirty.” — Nagarjuna
SIN, Law
SIN Cross-References
Pessimism—275 • Adversity—298 •
Fear—329 • Doubt—347 • Ignorance—505 •
Perception—605 • Thought—627 • Patience—752 •
Honor—819 • Dishonesty—863, 867 • Greed—879 •
Conscience—972, 978-979 • Arts—1079 • Punishment—1218-1219, 1222-1224 •
Law—1313 • War & Peace—1320, 1331, 1334 •
Habit—1499-1500
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