“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)
“To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.”
Haven (1951)
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Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Source: Letter 99, Paragraph 13. Erika Bullmann Flores, Tr. from: <cite>Dr. Martin Luther's Saemmtliche Schriften</cite>Dr. Johann Georg Walch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Walch Ed. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, N.D.), Vol. 15, cols. 2585-2590. http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/letsinsbe.txt <br class="br">Context: If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 184.
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Thus Spake the Holy Mother, 72-73]
“When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Violence
Source: One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
October 27, 1882, to Keshub Chunder Sen. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Volume 1, Madras, 1985, p. 138. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters Ch.13
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942)
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 435.
“If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVII : Further Warnings; Helen to Mrs. Maxwell
“How much is your sin going to cost me?”
Ted Haggard (1956) American minister
http://web.archive.org/web/20060509115906/http://www.preachingtodaysermons.com/hatedhowmuis.html, popular sermon on how the consequences of our sin affect others, accessed 4 November 2006.