Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.
The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.