Sentence examples for act of sin from inspiring English sources

By this, Wilde does not mean that the act of sin itself is holy, but the transfiguration of this act that follows from the experience of long repentance and suffering.

Instead, a deterministic process has coerced the external person into performing the act of sin against his conscience and his true will.

The Card ultimately issues a warning against such acts of sin, and enlightens listeners that The Great Milenko is a part of every individual, and that they have the power to fall under his illusions or cast his hoaxes aside.

Why is sending notification to the government of its intention to activate its right to an exemption from the contraceptive mandate any less an act of facilitating sin, from the point of view of these religious organizations, than sending a notification to an insurance carrier?

Similarly, if sin is inherent we cannot blame the actor of sin (though we may indeed deem the actor's act a disvalued, denounced deed).

Sydney, where these latest acts of alleged sin are set, has forever been its moral home.

The mere act of articulating their sins and regrets endows them with a kind of poetic valor.

Why can't we acknowledge that God created all of us and that homosexuality isn't just an act of free will to sin?

But, as in Michael Frayn's Noises Off, there should be a headlong momentum to the middle act, which shows that the wages of sin are panic, fury and thwarted tumescence.

Which is why penance — the act of confession, speaking your sins out loud to a priest — is considered a sacrament.

In its conception and programming, the Shed is ultimately an act of repentance for the sins that surround it — an attempt at making amends for all the greed and ostentation embodied in the $23 billion playpen in which it has been sunk.