sins

• Your sins are all remembered, those dark deeds that you did, That tuppence brazenly purloined when you were but a kid. —  ElleryQueen'sMysteryMagazine,February2003
• Knowing the sternness of his judgments they feared lest he would reply: "For their sins are the French people justly chastised. —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
• "Make haste and cut the cord So Honeysuckle, always obedient--at least with her father--would saw the string in two between the sharp stones, and with a childish cry of despair would watch her favourite kite, blown by the wind, sail farther and farther away, until at last, straining her eyes, she could see it sink slowly to the earth in some far-distant meadow Now laugh and be happy," Mr. Min would say, "for your sins are all gone. —  A Chinese Wonder Book
• Your sins are my sins, my sins are your sins. —  The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series
• The best repentance for our sins is a clear-eyed recognition of their nature, and the temptation in some flurry of feeling to take on our shoulders the mistakes of destiny with which we chance to have been involuntarily associated, is one to be resisted in the interests of that self-knowledge which is the beginning of self-development. —  The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]

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