Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 153.
“Sin blurs man's face. Now Christ came not only to save mankind but also to repair what sin had broken, to snatch man away from everything that disfigures him, so as to restore to human destiny all its breadth and fulfillment.”
God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith (2015)
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Quoted as a 1968 statement of Lennon's in Sunday Tasmanian (29 September 1996), and in The Rough Guide to the Beatles (2003) by Chris Ingham, p. 271, this actually derives from a statement which Lennon perhaps had been quoting:
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
José Ortega y Gasset, in "Art a Thing of No Consequence" in The Dehumanization of Art (1925)
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"Art a Thing of No Consequence"
The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)
Context: Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove.
All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 506.

Journal of Discourses 21:323 (August 1, 1880).
Baptism of the Earth

“The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway.”
Unseen Spirits.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 87

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”