Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not ugly but passe. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.

Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.

It was the sinner that Christ came to help.

... every little boy thinks he invented sin.