Sentence examples for obsession with sin from inspiring English sources

And an obsession with sin.

He regarded the Calvinist obsession with sin and sacrifice as a superstition, and he didn't want his prize pupil's head filled with gloomy fundamentalist dogma.

Exuberance and wonder gave way to a crabbed obsession with sin and Christians turned inward to fret about the health of their souls.

This is a religion (and I've had but a taste, so please correct me if I'm wrong) that seems to indulge the most neurotic, depressive impulses: there is a repeated combing over of the Bible, a deadening and ghoulish obsession with sin and the burden of constant self-scrutiny for any hint of idolatry (Masters even warned about the "idolatry" believers might have for their children).

The songs are about the gripes of the rich and famous -- "All that first-class jet set brings me down," Mr. Weiland sang -- and from the Stone Temple Pilots side, about lingering obsessions with God, sin and redemption.

The novel deals with sin, guilt, obsession, compulsion, the nature of religious belief and the destructive innocence of God's elect but nothing rumples the bright precision of the writing and the observation behind it.

The question is: How many more women like Savita Halappanavar should we tolerate in our continued privileging of religion's massively gender-informed obsession with sacrifice and innocence, sin and shame?

Ms. Bernal's memoir of her tempestuous affair with Mr. Salinas hit the bookstores last week, just when Mexicans' obsession with his family's sins had finally begun to ease.

Their single-minded obsession with Israel and all its alleged sins is worthy of in-depth psychological studies, just like their neglect of truly egregious examples of human suffering that don't involve the world's one and only Jewish state.

I don't recall whether I ever accepted the idea that infants are born sinful, but my obsession with the Civil War left me little doubt nations can be born with original sin -- and our nation was.

The church does the same with sin and grave sin.