sinning

Q Is this what they call sinning by omission and not commission?

Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

I don't like the word sin because to me sinning is about obeying some rules in the Bible or something, whereas I define good versus bad in terms of harms.

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God keeps an exact account of the time that people go on in sinning against him, and in grieving him by their sins; but at length, if they by their sins continue to grieve the Spirit of God, their sins shall be made grievous to their own spirits, either in a way of judgment or mercy.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

He was so wilful in sinning against his knowledge and convictions that any one might see, and say, that he designed no other than to provoke God in the highest degree.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

As some of you may know, I submit quantities of pieces and sometimes I'm on target and sometimes I miss the mark (interestingly, "missing the mark" is one of the etymologies of "sinning" -- kind of interesting).

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He also spoke about how American Evangelicals had egged on the Ugandan authorities with the Evangelical-propagated pseudo-scientific myth that homosexuality is a "chosen life-style" that can be "cured" by Jesus and/or therapy, and that therefore people who remain gay are gay because they choose to be and thus are "sinning" -- on purpose.

Frank Schaeffer: Republicans and "Christians" vs. Gays Frank Schaeffer 2010

He also spoke about how American Evangelicals had egged on the Ugandan authorities with the Evangelical-propagated pseudo-scientific myth that homosexuality is a "chosen life-style" that can be "cured" by Jesus and/or therapy, and that therefore people who remain gay are gay because they choose to be and thus are "sinning" -- on purpose.

Frank Schaeffer: Republicans and "Christians" vs. Gays Frank Schaeffer 2010

Consequently, he seems to be perplexed, and under necessity of sinning, which is not becoming.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

It is not the physical action itself, he said, nor any imaginary injury to God, that constitutes sin, but rather the psychological element in the action, the intention of sinning, which is formal contempt of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The dream of an untainted love, the vision of unspotted youth and pure maiden, the glory of unbroken faith kept whole by man and wife in holy wedlock, the pride of stainless name and stainless race -- these things are not less high because there is a sublimity in the strength of a great sin which may lie the closer to our sympathy, as the sinning is the nearer to our weakness.

Don Orsino 1881