Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
b90b8aa | God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man. | sinner | Georgette Heyer | |
b25fff7 | Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner... | stereotypes men women sinner weakness sin | Anne Brontë | |
d1941d2 | Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn't that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner? | sinner sin | Katie McGarry | |
8442d77 | All men are sinners. | morality sinner right-and-wrong sin | George R.R. Martin | |
1a7e33b | Sinner' and 'saint' are waves of differing size and magnitude on the surface of the same sea. Each is a natural outcome of forces in the universe; each is governed by time and causation. Nobody is utterly lost, and nobody need despair. | saint sinner | David James Duncan | |
bece39a | Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner. | sinner | John Cheever |