“Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
As I Lay Dying (1930)
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Source: 1840s, Works of Love (1847), p. 296
[Haggard, Ted, The Life Giving Church, Regal Books, Expanded edition (May 2001), p. 111, ISBN 0830726594]

“For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 37
Context: What may make me more to love mine even-Christians than to see in God that He loveth all that shall be saved as it were all one soul?
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall. Right as there is a beastly will in the lower part that may will no good, right so there is a Godly Will in the higher part, which will is so good that it may never will evil, but ever good. And therefore we are that which He loveth and endlessly we do that which Him pleaseth.

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1