“It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.”
Source: The Forbidden Game
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“It is very astonishing that man, being a mortal, can still develop feelings of haughtiness.”
23 April 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
“Again and again our foe, religion, has given birth to deeds sinful and unholy.”
Saepius illa
religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.
Book I, lines 82–83 (tr. C. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
8:7 (King James Version)
New Testament, Gospel of John
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.”
Cette petite composition qui est, hélas, le dernier péché mortel de ma vieillesse.
Introductory note to the Petite Messe Solennelle. Translation from Justin Wintle (ed.) Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture (2002) vol. 2, p. 527.
"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
“Pride is the master sin of the devil.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 484.
Chick tracts, " Why Should I? http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1079/1079_01.asp" (2012)