What we call sinfulness is largely a matter of custom and convention. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
We shall never be able to stamp out syphilis and gonorrhoea until the stigma of sinfulness is removed from them. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
Him and leaving the contrary, which is avarice or spending in sinfulness that which He hath committed to them; and what pleaseth. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
We take great caution and precaution to try to explain things in terms of our normal sinfulness, which is bad enough, and maybe psychological issues that the person has. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
His guilt was aggravated by his essential, native sinfulness, which is as contrary to God's requisitions of inward purity as are outward sins to those for right conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I suspect that underlying this is the notion of the "sinfulness" of capitalistic living standards -- which MUST be controlled. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Consensus or Religious War?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Instead of positive reinforcements, I was bombarded with vague, negative statements regarding the "sinfulness" or the "danger" of my supposed lifestyle. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin McEwen: The Dangers of Anti-Gay Propaganda: A Personal Story] Reference
This is an interesting quote - it sounds like a rational response to someone who believes mental illness is either weak faith or "sinfulness" and not a real medical disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Quote of the day | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
How, then, is he to blame mankind for inheriting "sinfulness" from their first parents?. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
Now such people are open to the full incursions of the tempter in the whole extent of that natural sinfulness which is in them. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume the Second.] Reference
I come here to make amends for past neglect and sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
But from its sinfulness I have never given expression to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Clayton the impropriety and sinfulness of judging humanity by its looks. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
True, they do not fully realize its sinfulness nor wholly appreciate its evils. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
There are follies that are to be laughed out of their silliness and sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
In God's sight its sadness is an imperfection -- in many instances it is sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
When it comes to sinfulness, he was quick to admit, heterosexuals take a back seat to no one. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Horowitz: Same-Sex Marriage: In the Beginning, There Was the Word] Reference
He bore all the trials and hardships which have come upon our race as a result of its sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
But now -- now she yielded to the subtle charm of them -- the wild pleasure of their very sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She therefore took occasion to visit the clergyman, and harangued him at length on the sinfulness of pride. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Their sins as to outward form were diverse; but in essential character the sinfulness was in both the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Or how can His generosity be known to any one who says it was despised on account of its ignoble sinfulness?. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
In this Petition we acknowledge our sinfulness, pray for forgiveness, and promise to forgive our fellow-men. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
Psychologically considered, this whole affair of saintliness or sinfulness is a matter of the preponderant idea. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Our own wretchedness and sinfulness we are acquainted with; but charity inclines us to judge the best of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
His judgment of himself accords with his actual state and character; he knows and owns the truth regarding his own sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Christianity, but he had never shown any deep conviction of his sinfulness and danger, nor any desire to obtain pardon and purity. From Wordnik.com. [Old Daniel] Reference
Does natural selection explain the universal sinfulness of man, on the ground that those who did not have this "improvement" perished?. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, being much engaged in urging the sinfulness of slavery, called one day at the house of Dr. Bellamy in Bethlem. From Wordnik.com. [Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?] Reference
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