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    Frederick Lewis Donaldson
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics witho...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Romans 12:19, Matthew 5:23-24, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:26-27, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 14:29, James 1:19-20
    Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to com...

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    Joseph Epstein
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    Of all the deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Sloth is not to be confused with laziness. A slothful man may be a very busy man. He is a man who goes through the motions, who flies on automatic pilot. Like a man with a bad head cold, he has mostly...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

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    Mark Twain
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    Proverbs 28:13, Ecclesiastes 12:14, James 4:1-2, Matthew 15:19, Psalm 19:12
    Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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    Simone Weil
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    Revelation 21:6, Matthew 5:6, Isaiah 55:1-2, Psalm 16:11, John 4:13-14, Jeremiah 2:13, Romans 3:23
    Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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    John Wesley
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    As the most dangerous winds may enter at little openings, so the devil never enters more dangerously than by little unobserved incidents, which seem to be nothing, yet insensibly open the heart to gre...

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    Hildegard of Bingen
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    And when the Evil One brandishes his sword against you, you break it in his own heart.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Hebrews 12:11, 1 Corinthians 5:12, Ezekiel 3:18, Proverbs 27:5-6, Matthew 18:15, Galatians 6:1
    Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.

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    J. R. R. Tolkein
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    “One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.”

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    Timothy Keller
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    John 14:6, Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, Jeremiah 17:5
    Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

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    Thomas Adams
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    Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 59:2, 2 Peter 2:19, John 8:34, Romans 7:18-19, Proverbs 5:22
    Sin is a suicidal action of the will upon itself. It is like taking an addicting drug. At first it may feel wonderful, but every time it gets harder to not do it again.

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    Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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    His teeth were like the Ten Commandments: all broken.

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    George Herbert
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    Who would know Sin, let him repair Unto Mount Olivet; there shall he see A man so wrung with pains, that all his hair, His skin, his garments bloody be. Sin is that press and vice, which forceth pain ...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Benjamin Franklin
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    Matthew 5:23-24, Proverbs 16:32, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:26-27, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 14:29, James 1:19-20
    Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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    John Piper
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    Sin gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be happier if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier.

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    2 Timothy 3:13, Hebrews 3:12-13, Ephesians 4:18-19, Proverbs 5:22, Romans 1:21, Psalm 36:1-2
    Sin is a position which out of itself develops a more and more positive continuity. . . .Sin grows every instant one does not get out of it.

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    William Shakespeare
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    Oh villain! Thou art condemned into everlasting redemption.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 14:12
    And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pl...

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    Dwight L. Moody
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    Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

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    R. C. Sproul
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    John 3:19-20, Proverbs 16:5, 1 Samuel 15:23, Jeremiah 2:19, James 4:4
    Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Psalm 51:17, Romans 7:18, Matthew 5:3, Romans 3:10
    Feel your sinfulness. Let it humble you. Let it sober you. Beware of so filling your life with talk shows and phone calls that you don’t regularly stop and consider the ruinous condition of your life ...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emot...

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    Karl Barth
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    Acts 9:1-19, Luke 23:39-43, John 21:15-19, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32, John 1:16-17
    We are forbidden to take sin more seriously than grace, or even as seriously as grace.

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    Chuck DeGroat
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    Colossians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, 1 John 2:16, James 1:14-15, Romans 8:1-2, Galatians 5:16-17
    The early church fathers named the primary sin patterns “passions,” borrowing a Latin term that could also be translated “sufferings ” As we live out a unique pattern or “face” of sin, we begin to thi...

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    T. S. Eliot
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    The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 4:7, Romans 8:7, Galatians 5:17
    Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life.
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