This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
No consenting soul can be made to sin, and so sin is inexcusable.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
The sin of racial pride still represents the most basic challenge to the American conscience. We cannot dodge this challenge without renouncing our highest moral pretentions.
Challenge | Conscience | Pride | Sin |
True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin and broken from sin. Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
Heart | Man | Reform | Repentance | Sin |
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
C. S. Lewis, fully Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis, called "Jack" by his family
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to “rejoice” as much as by anything else.
The nature or very essence of phenomena, whether vital or mineral, will always remain unknown... Absolute knowledge could, therefore, leave nothing outside itself; and only on condition of knowing everything could man be granted its attainment. Man behaves as if he were destined to reach this absolute knowledge; and the incessant why which he puts to nature proves it. Indeed, this hope, constantly disappointed, constantly reborn, sustains and always will sustain successive generation sin the passionate search for truth.
Absolute | Attainment | Hope | Knowing | Knowledge | Man | Nature | Nothing | Phenomena | Search | Sin | Truth | Will |
Hell is but the collected ruins of the moral world, and sin is the principle that has made them.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent toward them. That is the essence of inhumanity.
Hate | Inhumanity | Sin |
Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
Remorse is impotent; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong; it can end everything.
Remorse | Repentance | Sin | Will |
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell thee, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
Conscience | Force | Sin | Soul |
There is no sin we can be tempted to commit, but we shall find a greater satisfaction in resisting than in committing.
Sin |