Hosea Ballou - Sin Quotes

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Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

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Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

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Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

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O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

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