Sentence examples for sin and corruption from inspiring English sources

Mostly Colby presented himself as Galahad in a fallen world, a modest knight to be sure, but bent on finding the grail amid sin and corruption.

Ministers urged their congregations to "take, kill, burn, sink, destroy all sin and Corruption, &C which are professed enemies to Christ Jesus, and not to pity or spare any of them".

Buoyed first by Christianity and later by Marxism, the poor enjoyed a moral status as elevated as their social rank was low, de Botton argues, while the affluent were compelled to pursue their pleasures under the stigmas of sin and corruption.

"They're Jeremiahs, talking about purging the Republic of sin and corruption," said David M. Kennedy, a Stanford University history professor and the author of "Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945" (Oxford University), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history this year.

The connection of sex, sin and corruption has long plagued the Catholic Church as an institution.

Now convinced that "paper wealth" isn't just an abstraction, they conclude that it must be the product of sin and corruption.

Where we see experimentation and the pushing of boundaries, it sees sin and societal corruption that must be violently scared out of people.

And he said officials had "committed the gravest sins, tyranny and corruption without accountability or oversight as their consciences died, their feelings became numb and their hearts in their chests turned blind".

In classic Judaism and first-century Christianity, believers expected this world would be transformed into God's Kingdom -- a restored Eden where redeemed human beings would be liberated from death, illness, sin and other corruptions.

Tweed was conceived in sin and born in corruption, to steal from Robert Penn Warren.

The F.B.I., as Robert Penn Warren wrote about the rest of humanity, was "conceived in sin and born in corruption".