How To Use Sinful In A Sentence

Oh, it's fine for her to waste food on a level I can only describe as sinful but God forbid we should be wasting light bulbs or toilet paper.
It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. The Essays
What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
It is a scourge to a sinful land; as once it was for the destruction of the whole world, so it is now often for the correction or discipline of some parts of it, by hindering seedness and harvest, raising the waters, and damaging the fruits. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Part of acknowledging our inadequacies and sinfulness is to admit when you are doing a lousy job speaking the truth, which is the main burden of the Cdl's message.

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A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Both of these, however, may be referred to the words which may happen to be sinful, either by reason of excess which belongs to "loquaciousness," or by reason of unbecomingness, which belongs to "scurrility. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
They lodged us at the Seaman's Rest, took our painted rags away and clothed us in blue "civvie" suits which seemed to us the height of sinful luxury. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
The temptation is not sinful, but it remains disordered.
The world 's most sinful hotel suite? Times, Sunday Times
Those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature. Christianity Today
If the sinful bath were destroyed the well would flow again.
We try to compensate for our natural sinfulness by performing good works of various kinds.
Robin — the blue bowl — that will sloken all their drouth, and prevent the sinful repetition of whipping for an eke of a Saturday at e’en. Redgauntlet
What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform.
The "I" here, though of course not the regenerate, is neither the unregenerate, but the sinful principle of the renewed man, as is expressly stated in Ro 7: 18. 15, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It was an easy way for society to lock up girls who were ‘frivolous, sinful and feeble-minded.’
And the Italians put the fruit to good use - mixing it with gelato ice-cream (phenomenally tasty), liqueur (equally as sinful) and a host of other treats (the candies are the bomb!) Gregory Curley: PHOTOS: Eat, Pray, Awesome Along Italy's Amalfi Coast
So segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound, but it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation.
The general effect was of a tropical jungle, made somehow rich and sinfully luxurious.
There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire.
Those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature. Christianity Today
Now there is nothing immediately sinful about the process except that it probably wastes a lot of research time.
Yet I knew that my urges were impure and sinful, and that it was my duty as a Christian to resist them until the day of my wedding to my beloved Emily.
My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. Christianity Today
This fudge is melt in the mouth and absolutely sinful. Walnut Chocolate Fudge
The real problem with the big-screen televisions is that, like Hummers or McMansions, they offend the sensibilities of many in California's political class, to whom the notion of overconsumption is sinful. City Journal
Both believe that the Bible can do ignorant, sensual savages no good; both believe that nothing but compulsatory power can restrain uncivilized barbarians from polygamy, inebriety, and other sinful practices. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
Unrighteousness is unto sin; the sinful acts confirm and strengthen the sinful habits; one sin begets another; it is like the letting forth of water, therefore leave it before it be meddled with. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Elizabeth Leiknes is the author of "The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns," a novel she describes as sassy women's fiction. The Record-Courier - Top Stories
This does not mean that those who publish, who do research, and who become nationally renowned are thereby and for those reasons corrupt or sinful.
For she bids us commit to the earth the corpses of all who die not "unbaptized," "excommunicate," or wilful suicides, and who are willing to lie in our consecrated ground; giving thanks to God that our dear brother has been delivered from the miseries of this sinful world, and in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Westminster Sermons with a Preface
He felt it almost sinful to work to such an equable schedule for such a rate of pay. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
There was a direct association with sinful people and the places they inhabited. Christianity Today
And the public desire for scandal is itself sinful.
Thus Ash Wednesday helps worshiping believers confront our sinful nature as we recall our mortality.
Those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature. Christianity Today
Ah sinful nation a people a seed of evil - doers, children that deal corruptly!
Francis Wayland, a prominent theologian, antislavery activist, and longtime president of Brown University in the decades before the Civil War, spoke for many of the cloth when he warned that “thoughtless caprice,” “sensual self-indulgence,” and “reckless expense” were not only sinful but also socially ruinous. A Renegade History of the United States
So, if a son that is by his father sent about merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a servant, under his master's command transporting a sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the business of the master the author of the servant's damnation: but this is not so: the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his servant; for they purpose not their death, when they purpose their services. The Life of King Henry V
I hate all death represents, our fallenness, weakness, sinfulness, corruptness etc.
The baked mussels were immersed sinfully in a cream-based garlic, parsley and white wine sauce.
But we are a sinful people, and so we are given an escape from our own sin tendencies through the holy Spirit – and forgiveness through our repentance and faith in the atoning blood of Christ. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
Karen is now an atheist, formerly a Catholic, who posts her internal dialogues with her ‘altar ego’ Sister Mary Karen, who is appalled by Karen's newfound heathenism and her sinful ways.
As to legal ramifications of sinful gustation, CKE seems covered two ways: nutritional data is readily available, and their marketing is to young adults, not kids. CKE's Puzder Touts Thickburgers, Mocks 'Health Craze'
The very Holy Family itself is being displaced by sinful self-regard: portraits of how wealthy everyone has become! CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
He felt it almost sinful to work to such an equable schedule for such a rate of pay. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Mrs. Walter Powell sometimes ventured to take Aurora to task on the folly and sinfulness of what she called indiscriminate almsgiving; but Mrs. Mellish would pour such a flood of eloquence upon her antagonist that the ensign's widow was always glad to retire from the unequal contest. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
a sinful person
Worship and adore the Guru, the Perfect True Guru, and all your sinful residues shall be dispelled.
She is sorry to find he is discontented, which is sinful and horrid, and hopes Mr. Squeers will flog him into a happier state of mind. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
Slayer "incited" the three young men, the suit says, with such lyrics as "I feel the urge the growing need/To f-- k this sinful corpse/My tasks complete the bitches (sic) soul/Lies raped in demonic lust. Heavy Metal: Music To Murder By?
The work of the atonement is a substitutionary work of Christ in behalf and instead of sinful man.
For us who were sinful, he gave up the holy one; for the wicked the innocent one; the just one for the unjust; the incorruptible one for corruptible men; and for us mortals the immortal one.
The purging of the sinful soul with hyssop, depicted by acciaccaturas and augmented seconds, leads into a lively, haunting dance as the broken bones of the text ` daunce awaie their sadness’.
Therefore, obedience to obviously sinful commands is complicity and conspiracy.
In fact, one point of religion for many people is to provide pressure that keeps them from backsliding into sinful ways.
God does not “enjoy” sin, and it saddens Him when those He created participate in sinful actions. Hating the sin, while loving the sinner? – Grasping for the Wind
he said it was sinful to wear lipstick
Their views are the result of a fallen and sinful human nature, of rampant egotism and arrogance, and nothing more.
They're impure, contaminating a virtuous America with their sinful behavior.
The list of sweets is equally sinful and simple, from peaches and cream pancakes to a gingery sticky toffee pudding.
The result tastes more sinful than saintly to me, with its sultry, come-hither personality. New and Old Worlds Meet in Decadent Viogniers
I was taught that it might contribute to a reading that if outward appearance reflects inward being, as was the prof's theory of medieval lit clothing a bismotered habergeon might indicate an inward uncleanliness or sinfulness, and that he's on pilgrimage because of it. A Verray Parfit, Gentil, (Desperately Poor? Greedy? Penitent?) Knyght
Yet in the midst of human sinfulness and weaknesses, God consistently enabled them to keep his mandates.
Is there something sinful afoot? The Sun
Or it may come as we face the battle against fallen, sinful desires within our own hearts.
It prickled over my flesh with the delicate brutality of thorns, delicious and sinful and utterly him. Brush of Darkness
It was dinned into us that wasting water was sinful.
The scale indicates the degree to which respondents feel that the world and the people in it are evil or sinful.
While they still display the moves and the wardrobe of rock ‘n’ roll cliché, the band play with such passion and energy and with an obvious intent to expand their sound it would be sinful to dismiss them as posers.
Whenever God manifests himself to sinful man through the Holy Spirit, it means condemnation for the flesh.
his religiousness is dialectically related to his sinfulness
The archbishop explained, "The Divine Mercy devotion is a reminder for us in the modern world to be mindful that God's mercy is always there and stronger than our sinfulness or our limitations.
Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
Private houses generally contributed a halfpenny a week, and farmers gave a basinful or a nogin of flour.
We do not accept, however, that to reject homoerotic sexual practice as sinful is in itself homophobic.
Page iv life of my wife, nor of myself; but merely as an account of our escape; together with other matter which I hope may be the means of creating in some minds a deeper abhorrence of the sinful and abominable practice of enslaving and brutifying our fellow-creatures. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery iv, 111 p., ill.
He clarifies what he means by asserting that in the New Testament the word ‘flesh’ refers simply to our physical fleshly body, and not our sinful nature.
Francis Wayland, a prominent theologian, antislavery activist, and longtime president of Brown University in the decades before the Civil War, spoke for many of the cloth when he warned that “thoughtless caprice,” “sensual self-indulgence,” and “reckless expense” were not only sinful but also socially ruinous. A Renegade History of the United States
All of us are sinful, we have all done wrong and this separates us from our creator God.
In the Bible, the northern tribes are consistently depicted as weakhearted failures, with a pronounced tendency to sinfulness. The Bible Unearthed
CAIRO - A group of Islamist lawyers said they have gone to court to block what they call a sinful U.N. population conference from being held in Cairo next month. ANC Daily News Briefing
Poverty has long antedated capitalism, and exploitation caused by human sinfulness has marked every era.
It is unscriptural to think that salvation begins by Christ first coming into the sinful heart of a man.
As a student of science and philosophy of science, I am continually amazed and saddened by the willful distortions of science and evolutionary evidence by many who advance ideas of man's failed and sinful nature and then turn right around and are certain of their own unfailed and holy interpretations. Undefined
Instead, the rites of Levitical sacrifice are inaugurated and the priesthood is instituted as a sort of permanent penitential reminder to the people of their sinfulness.
Furthermore, because of the sinfulness of man, wealth will always be unequally distributed, so that "the poor will never cease to be in your midst.
An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful churches and nations; or, the only way to deliver a sinful nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments: in a discourse on the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Sermons of John Owen
Following Coughlin's analysis, we see how the laxity encouraged by an antinomian atmosphere results in the countenancing of sinful and criminal behavior which, in turn, produces a legalistic reaction.
I know it's sinful, and I know I oughtn't, but I do love watching irate motorists who've been caught breaking parking regulations, especially able-bodied drivers who park across disabled parking bays.
Society and the church used to condemn the profit motive as sinful and wrong.
Alongside this religious rituals were developed to protect the human ego from sexual impulses, thoughts and fantasies which had been repressed because the Church viewed such things as sinful.
Neither were they thankful; not thankful for the favours in general they received from God (insensibleness of God's mercies is at the bottom of our sinful departures from him); not thankful in particular for the discoveries God was pleased to make of himself to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The City of Man is a world of profound imperfection, peopled by fallen, sinful beings who can only hope for ultimate citizenship in the City of God through an earthly life of piety.
There is a sort of listlessness -- or, perhaps, more properly, reverie -- in which many indulge, which is as sinful as it is unprofitable; and there are modes of thinking and subjects of thought, which are, to say the least, unworthy of a rational, intelligent and immortal spirit. The Young Woman's Guide
The play then shifts to a church confessional where the geek is talking about the sniffing incident, about how it was a sinful display but arousing nonetheless.
It turns out that certain types of high-tech shower are, in fact, much worse than the sinful old low-fi bath. Times, Sunday Times
It is an unnatural state (but then again, aren't lying and stealing also?) and homosexuals should not embrace their sinful nature and should remain celibate if loving the opposite sex prove too difficult. Slaying Evil
But ye will get the blue bowl, Robin -- the blue bowl -- that will sloken all their drouth, and prevent the sinful repetition of whipping for an eke of a Saturday at e'en. Redgauntlet
Those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature. Christianity Today
This book is not intended as a full history of the life of my wife, nor of myself; but merely as an account of our escape; together with other matter which I hope may be the means of creating in some minds a deeper abhorrence of the sinful and abominable practice of enslaving and brutifying our fellow-creatures. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
I am not saying we are more sinful or more evil than previous generations, but that we are more modern.
Just how sinful that is, is a matter for debate; but the real question is whether among EU aspirant countries, such laws are permissible.
I know it's sinful, and I know I oughtn't, but I do love watching irate motorists who've been caught breaking parking regulations, especially able-bodied drivers who park across disabled parking bays.
Its sufficiency consists in this -- both that it demonstrates the necessity of that duty which is to be performed by sinful man, to be completely absolute, and on no account to be remissible, by which the way is closed against carnal security -- and that it most strongly fortifies against despair, not only sinners, that they may be led to repentance, but also those who perform the duty, that they may, through the certain hope of future blessings, persevere in the course of faith and of good works upon which they have entered. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
Washcloth draped over the neck, basinful of toiletry items in hand, perhaps shod in wooden clogs, many Japanese ritually visit a public bathhouse, at whose entrance hangs a curtain decorated with a design of steam vapor.
Those States have assume the right ofdeciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteenof the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they havepermitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign theproperty of the citizens of other States. DISUNION!
Have you considered writing the words "SINFUL WHORE" in bold capital letters on her forehead with a sharpy as she sleeps? Archive 2009-05-03
The world 's most sinful hotel suite? Times, Sunday Times
But first, the poor thing must endure violent convulsions: ‘In great heaving waves the old hero would vomit basinfuls of gruelly white flocculent matter, the color of soap in hard water.’
Are you ready to confess your sinfulness before your loving God so that He can forgive and purify your life?
Therefore war is always sinful. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
a basinful of water
They would smouch provisions from the pantry whenever they got a chance; or a brass thimble, or a cake of wax, or an emery bag, or a paper of needles, or a silver spoon, or a dollar bill, or small articles of clothing, or any other property of light value; and so far were they from considering such reprisals sinful, that they would go to church and shout and pray the loudest and sincerest with their plunder in their pockets. Pudd'nhead Wilson
I felt I didn’t want to be sinful and wicked any more. Three Men in a Boat
The output of playing cards was seriously curtailed in Cromwellian times, when both cards and play were regarded as sinful.
Once Adam disobeyed God, however, we became a fallen and sinful race living in a cursed world.
It was our poor, sinful, worldly-minded brother here present who was wrestled for. George Silvermans's Explanation
Indeed it may well be that far from an aberration or even sinful distortion, the normal and proper condition of society, and even of the Church, is one of dispute and conflict.
Francis referred to his spirit as being like a liquid (like water) and asked God to drink him up - 'lapping' him in - not with the idea of being destroyed, but of being relieved from the sensual (sinful) drive to put himself (or some other thing) on the throne of his heart. The mystical ecstasy of God's love!
Those whom we term sinful, sensual or criminal are simply Home Missions in Action
It is unscriptural to think that salvation begins by Christ first coming into the sinful heart of a man.
Those that truly feared God were always testifying that God would come, and take vengeance on them for their impieties and impenitency; but because these judgments were not speedily executed, the sinful world did always despise their warnings, and scoff at their message. The Sermons of John Owen
In the divine realm, fire symbolizes the universal conflagration of the apocalypse which will destroy men's sinful bodies.
During this time he allows Jesus to soak up all of his sinfulness and depravity and then to fill him with the presence of Holy Spirit.
Those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature. Christianity Today
The truth about alcohol is that it is sinful and wrong to consume alcohol in any quantity for recreational purposes.
Where Christianity taught that humans are sinful because of the fall, modernity taught universal human goodness and even perfectibility and denied the doctrine of sin.
You were called out of spiritual deadness and sinful darkness by mercy, through mercy, and for mercy.
CAIRO - A group of Islamist lawyers said they have gone to court to block what they call a sinful U.N. population conference from being held in Cairo next month. ANC Daily News Briefing
Your old sinful life was put to death on the Cross with Jesus, and buried with him in the grave.
My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. Christianity Today
Converts accepted their own ineradicable sinfulness, but they were psychologically freed by the proclamation that God nevertheless considered them innocent or righteous.
Juicy, tender and sinfully rich, I immodestly enjoyed every one when my companion got cold feet.
We may believe that His saving work is so effective that there is no sin that cannot be forgiven and no sinner too sinful to be cleansed.
Certes, such is the unhappy condition of sinful nature, that not merely in acts that are morally doubtful it adopts the worse conclusion; but often it depraves by iniquitous subversion those which have the appearance of rectitude. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness.
A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler.
End your evening with one of seven homemade desserts: the raspberries with zabaglione are a sinfully rich concoction, while the cannoli is a creamy masterpiece. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chicago
A child being educated in Catholic schools learns that only gay men and women who abstain from sex are worthy of the sacraments, but that sinful heterosexual lovemaking is transformed by a sacrament (marriage) powerful enough to render the sexual aspect of love a radiant reflection of Christ's love, from which radiance the Vatican insists gay Catholics should be excluded. Michele Somerville: Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done
A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
So, if a son that is by his father sent about merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a servant, under his masters command transporting a sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the business of the master the author of the servants damnation. Act IV. Scene I. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
The church typically reminds them of their sinfulness.
If parents don't work at unbinding that folly (sinful ignorance of God and His ways), we have no hope of the next generation being and doing more for God than we.
Your face is smooth and soft; your eyes are dark and look like a decadent pool of rich, sinful chocolate any man would love to drown in.
Galatians 6:7-8 tells us that in time we shall reap corruption from our sinful habits.
It seems to me that each act of sinning incrementally dulls the ability of an individual to see the sinfulness of the act.
STANLEY-I must say a bowl of soup mit lokshen would do me the world of good today as I have to admit that sinfully I partook of a dish of gambas pil pil last night full of knoble AND THE BELLY IS NISHT GUT!!! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The Bishop said that night while Rachel was singing that if the world of sinful, diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the gospel preached to it by consecrated prima donnas and professional tenors and altos and bassos, he believed it would hasten the coming of the Kingdom quicker than any other one force. In His Steps
The soup was robust and fruity, fun and flavorful; the steak was seasoned and cooked perfectly, the Bernaise sauce a wickedly sinful accompaniment.
Oh, ye crowds of rags and patches, frail, sinful and beggarly, what about it?
It is the difference between the authority of the inspired, inerrant Word of God and that of unbelieving, sinful man.
But the schoolmen and casuists having too much philosophy to go about to clear a lie from that intrinsic inordination and deviation from right reason inherent in the nature of it, and yet withal unwilling to rob the world, and themselves especially, of so sweet a morsel of liberty, held that a lie was indeed absolutely and universally sinful; but then they held also, that only the pernicious He was a mortal sin, and the other two were only venial. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
Just like I choose to not give into lustful sinful behaviour so that I remain faithful to my wife. Richard Dawkins explains how the gay gene was preserved « Anglican Samizdat
These words directly acknowledge the reality of systemic evil and individual sinfulness.
Buying that sports car was a sinful waste of money.
Faraday had been brought up to believe that people, though capable of many good things, are basically corrupt and sinful.
During this time of approximately one month, the woman was considered contaminated by the issue of blood and treated as though dangerous and in the sinful state of being unbaptized.
Their sinful and godless ways need to be checked with the might of the US military.
Therefore we must confess that He, who is ever the same, has commanded these and such like institutions on account of sinful men, and we must declare Him to be benevolent, foreknowing, needing nothing, righteous and good. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
But she looked again, guiltily, for the joy that was hers in beholding what she knew must be sinful to behold. Chapter 4
I do think it is the ignorance and advertency of this conjunction, that makes our case both more sad and sinful than otherwise it would be. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Some of my commenters will be angry at me for saying the remarks I have quoted are insane and sinful.
Is there something sinful afoot? The Sun
Religious dogmas often include strong sexual taboos and can create in children the impression that sex is sinful.
There is a kind of infiniteness in it, nothing can express it but itself no name worse than itself to set it out, the apostle can get no other epithet to it, Rom.vii. 13, than “sinful” sin, so that it cometh in most direct opposition unto God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
From what I have seen I can be expected to conclude, contrary to what I am fortunate to know from other sources, that a proabortion rights stance publicly maintained by an internationally prominent Catholic is not manifestly gravely sinful. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
Those States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution: they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. Boing Boing
What sinful aphrodisia drives my thirsty eyes to crucify themselves upon thy scarlet lips? About.com Humor
Now this parable is applicable to another purpose than that for which it was intended; and does excellently set forth the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards sinful miserable man. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
We practice our religious beliefs, but I still have a problem with bringing a child into this sinful, dying world.
Catholics believe that God uses purgatory to prepare sinful souls for the joys of heaven.
Paul seemed to regard sex as sinful and immoral.
It's just cheese and toasted bread, but somehow it's an almost sinful delight.
Juicy, tender and sinfully rich, I immodestly enjoyed every one when my companion got cold feet.
And there's a certain secretness that makes it attractive and it taps into our sinful natures in that it pulls at the very core of who we are. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2009
The English bishops say instead that homosexual orientation must never be considered sinful or evil in itself just so long as it is not sexually expressed.
[50] Tears have power to cleanse the wickedness of our heart, and sufferings and affliction are necessary, because through suffering the sinful expansion of the heart is salutarily contracted, and when the heart is thus contracted, tears more easily flow. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
The roysterous young dogs; caroling, howling, breaking the Lord Abbot's sleep, -- after that sinful chivalry cock-fight of theirs! Past and Present
Inflexible physical laws are necessary; their very inflexibility is divine order; but 'what law cannot do, in that it is weak through the flesh, God did by sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.' Oldtown Folks
Sorrow had quenched the fiery passions of impetuous youth, and religion’s holy precepts had taught Edmund Saville, that revenge was sinful, and that the divine command expressly said —” Thou shalt do no murder;” and in his reflective mind, the duellist was a murderer, let custom gloss the practice how it might. Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
For we miserably mutilate it, and sinfully as well as foolishly limit its application and its power, if we recognise it only -- I was going to say mainly -- as being the ground of our hope and of what we call our salvation, and do not recognise it as being the obligatory example of our lives, which we are bound to translate into our daily practice. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
We often went down on a Sunday to scoop up basinfuls of capelin when they washed ashore.
And because artificial contraception caused such a separation, it was inherently sinful.
Anticipating Walter Rauschenbusch, who branded economics the unregenerate part of American society, a Methodist pastor in Philadelphia labeled the industrial world a ‘sinful,’ ‘Christless realm.’
As if I'm wasting time and its sinful to waste anything.
Well, repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living.
With obvious reference to the Kennedy funeral, he argued that when a politician is associated "with greatly sinful acts about fundamental questions like abortion and marriage, his repentance must also be public. Politics
My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. Christianity Today
Infidelity to one's vows is sinful; infidelity to the grace and character of sacred ordination to the priesthood is sinful; sexual abuse in whatever form is sinful.
Live a good life according to God and you'll go to a form of paradise, live a sinful life and you'll go to a form of torture.
The other principle of the sinful act is the proper and proximate principle which elicits the sinful act: thus the concupiscible is the principle of gluttony and lust, wherefore these sins are said to be in the concupiscible. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
There was a direct association with sinful people and the places they inhabited. Christianity Today
Their meeting was not cordial, nor such as men, who meet in a desert, should give each other; but I thought they would have parted in peace, until I saw one put his rifle to the other's back, and do what I call a treacherous and sinful murder. The Prairie
If by the term heretic we are to imply moral guilt, I am not justified in applying it to any Christian, unless his doctrines are positively sinful, or there is something wicked, either in the way of dishonesty or bitterness, in his manner of maintaining them. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
Vocation is the first function of the regal office of Christ, by which he calls sinful men to repent and believe the gospel -- a reward being proposed concerning a participation of the kingdom, and a threatening added of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
`Frankly," said Jeremy, `we had a basinful of that in Munich and I'd welcome a change. OUT OF THE ASHES

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