Sentence examples for lead to sin from inspiring English sources

"Set you going in your motions" looks closer to Dante's i vostri movimenti inizia, but gives little if any sense that he is talking about the appetitive "movements" of the soul, the predilections that can lead to sin; "appetites" is far better in this particular case.

In the 17th century many Puritans believed that the slightest action might lead to sin, and even to Hell if it was not repented.

He supports the right of women to lead Friday prayers: "How can we make an ignorant man an imam and not a learned lady?" He holds that unmarried couples' kissing does not lead to sin: "An insignificant act the [conservatives] say is a step toward adultery". And his next book deals with relations between men and women under Islam.

Avoid situations and people that lead to sin.

Ṛta is the principle underlying the 'finely-tuned universe', the transgression of which leads to sin.

Freedom is what leads to sin and consequently evil.

If there is one thing the Pope hates, it is sin, and freedom apparently leads to sin.

Or as the dour St. John Chrysostom, an early Church Father, darkly opines: "Laughter does not seem to be a sin but it leads to sin".

Then again, there is Jesus' command to pluck out your eye or cut off your hand if said anatomy leads to sin; and there's the mandate for Israelites to kill all the people who lived in the land they understood to be promised to them.

It is believed that the presence of women might distract the monks, tempting them away from true celibacy and lead them to sin.

"By being religious, God prevents you from doing wrong things," Mr. Sayyid said, revealing his central fear and motivation, that time and boredom will lead him to sin.