There is still a great deal of legalism in the Old Testament idea of sin. The emphasis in the Sermon on the Mount is very differen...t from that in the commandments that Moses brought down from Sinai. The commandments have been translated into beatitudes. "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth," is not a sentence one could read in the Old Testament without a jolt, but by the time we reach it in the New Testament, we have been prepared for it. It is set in the context of the rest of Christ's life and teaching. Without that example the sentence carries little conviction because there is no evidence that the meek do or ever will inherit the earth. We have been turned away from a concern merely with our outward acts, to contemplate what lies most deep in our innermost selves, hidden from all but ourselves and God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown... Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countrysid...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a big constructive imagination; here was a mere doctor laying bare the origins of Greek drama as no classical scholar had... ever done, teaching the anthropologist what was really meant by his totem and taboo, probing the mysteries of sin, of sanctity, of sacrament--a man who, because he understood, purged the human spirit from fear. I have no confidence in psycho-analysis as a method of therapeutics ... but I am equally sure that for generations almost every branch of human knowledge will be enriched and illumined by the imagination of Freud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, an...d here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the ...New World that is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is c...ommonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,... But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite loose The divine property of her first being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »