“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
William Shakespeare
“Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving”
“Hate the sin and love the sinner.”
Mahatma Ghandi
“I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else”
C.S. Lewis
“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
Benjamin Franklin
“All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”