To suffer and die for our sins – why? Julia Sweeney, Letting Go of God
Why would God create people so imperfect than blame them for their own imperfections? ibid.
Can one sin for the greater good? The Borgias s1e4: Lucrezia’s Wedding, della Rovere’s confession, Showtime 2011
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once. Joyce Cary, The Horse’s Mouth
Priest: Tell me, what sins have you committed?
Clerici: All. Even the most heinous. I’ve killed too. Il Conformista [The Conformist] 1970 starring Jean-Louis Trintignant & Stefania Sandrelli & Gastone Moschin & Enzo Tarasscio & Fosco Giachetti & Jose Quaglio & Dominique Sanda & Pierre Clementi & Yvonne Sanson et al, director Bernardo Bertolucci
There are three ways of committing sins: by own’s own activity, by commission, by approval. Jaina Sutras Sutrakritanga 1
He believes in soul, believes in the world, believes in reward, believes in action ... these are all the causes of sin, which must be comprehended and renounced. Jaina Sutras 1
Had laws not been, we never had been blamed;
For not to know we sin is innocence. William D’Avenant, 1606-68
I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin. John Wesley, cited Darius Salter ‘America’s Bishop: The Life of Francis Asbury’
What becomes of sin? Will not a trace of it linger to mock and torment us ... Black Sails 1e7 priest, Starz 2014
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual. Luke Ford
Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage. His blood was in revolt. He wandered up and down the dark slimy streets peering into the gloom of lanes and doorways, listening eagerly for any sound. He moaned to himself like some baffled prowling beast. He wanted to sin with another of his kind, to force another being to sin with him and to exult with her in sin. He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself. Its murmur besieged his ears like the murmur of some multitude in sleep; its subtle streams penetrated his being. His hands clenched convulsively and his teeth set together as he suffered the agony of its penetration. He stretched out his arms in the street to hold fast the frail swooning form that eluded him and incited him: and the cry that he had strangled for so long in his throat issued from his lips. It broke from him like a wail of despair from a hell of sufferers and died in a wail of furious entreaty, a cry for an iniquitous abandonment, a cry which was but the echo of an obscene scrawl which he had read on the oozing wall of a urinal. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A cold lucid indifference reigned in his soul. At his first violent sin he had felt a wave of vitality pass out of him and had feared to find his body or his soul maimed by the excess. Instead the vital wave had carried him on its bosom out of himself and back again when it receded; and no part of body or soul had been maimed but a dark peace had been established between them. The chaos in which his ardour extinguished itself was a cold indifferent knowledge of himself. He had sinned mortally not once but many times and he knew that, while he stood in danger of eternal damnation for the first sin alone, by every succeeding sin he multiplied his guilt and his punishment. ibid.
The next day brought death and judgement, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair. The faint glimmer of fear became a terror of spirit as the hoarse voice of the preacher blew death into his soul. He suffered its agony. He felt the death chill touch the extremities and creep onward towards the heart, the film of death veiling the eyes, the bright centres of the brain extinguished one by one like lamps, the last sweat oozing upon the skin, the powerlessness of the dying limbs, the speech thickening and wandering and failing, the heart throbbing faintly and more faintly, all but vanquished, the breath, the poor breath, the poor helpless human spirit sobbing and sighing, gurgling and rattling in the throat. ibid.
‘But I can feel it, Josh. Really, I feel it. Or have I sinned? I did this to so many people, Josh. [cries] Is it all coming back to me?’ The Act of Killing ***** Sky Atlantic 2016
FLDS members are ‘sent away’ by leaders to repent for their sins. They often don’t know what sins they have committed. Escaping Polygamy s3e10: A Risky Reunion, Lifetime 2017
As if I can be washed clean for past sins. House of Cards US s5e11: Chapter 63, Frank, Netflix 2017
Leave all things behind, and come to me for thy salvation. I will make thee free from the bondage of sins. Fear no more. Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s Dialogue on the Soul 18:66
Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Exodus 34:7
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity. Leviticus 5:1
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. Numbers 9:13
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Numbers 18:32
Be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Deuteronomy 24:16
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them. I Samuel 2:25
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them. I Kings 8:35
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near. I Kings 8:46
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger. I Kings 15:30
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin. II Kings 14:6
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near. II Chronicles 6:36
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. II Chronicles 25:4
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Job 1:22
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? Job 35:3
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalms 1:4-6
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. Psalms 25:7&8&18
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Psalms 32:1&2