“Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.”
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“Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.”
Quoted in Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041522974X.
“Our debts (sins) are cancelled.”
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 81.

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana

“A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin.”
Aiel on the Three Fold Land
(15 November 1990)

“I see this wicked creature ordained of God to punish us for our sins and unthankfulness.”
Letter to the Earl of Leicester (15 October 1586) on Mary, Queen of Scots, quoted in John Cooper, The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (2011), pp. 226–227