“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Note slipped into the Western Wall in Jerusalem (24 July 2008) http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_9994539 <br class="br">2008
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Views on free will
Source: [Donaldson, Dwight M., The Shi'ite Religion: A History of Islam in Persia and Irak, 1933, 115,130-141, BURLEIGH PRESS]
“Again and again our foe, religion, has given birth to deeds sinful and unholy.”
Saepius illa
religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book I, lines 82–83 (tr. C. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
Em minha perdição se conjuraram.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 99
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente