Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.

-Vaughan, Henry
  Silex Scintillans,'The Retreat'.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  'One Child of One's Own', in Ms., Aug.

I have heard grief named the eldest child of sin.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 5, sc.4.

Ifelt my heart strangely warmed.I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given methat hehad taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

-Wesley,John
  Journal entry, 24 May.

   The cause of plagues is sin, if you look to it well; and the cause of sin are plays; therefore the cause of plagues are plays.

-White,Thomas
Attributed.

'God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction,'she said.'It's different with us,I haven't been to mass for years, I've got every mortal sinonmyconscience, but I know when I'mdoing wrong. I'm still a Catholic, it's there, nothing can take it away from me.' 'Of course, duckie,'said Jeremy†'once a Catholic always a Catholic.'

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  TheWrong Set,'Significant Experience'.