"Deadly sin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mother estranged; and, like a child lost upon a great moor, she looked round all heaven and earth, and there was none to counsel, none to guide— perhaps not even God. For would He help her as long as she lived in sin? And was she not living in sin, deadly sin, as long as she knew what she was sure she knew, and left ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... I have never told you anything but the truth. But you must come and be happy, my dear. I want you, yourself, and not a grave, reticent creature who has gone about the house the last few days, looking at me askance, as though I had committed some deadly sin." ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... been so lately an unpaid drudge was afraid these trained, clever servants might suspect her former state of servitude and she covered her fear with a manner so insupportable that Mr. Chadwick Champneys, who looked upon arrogant rudeness to social inferiors as a sort of eighth deadly sin, was presently forced ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... a death of the soul. To die is to lose life. But God is the life of the soul; since then deadly sin separates us from God, it is a death of ...
— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge
... this way with the intention of doing him injury, in order that they might depart hence and continue on their way. As far as his grace's awaiting a reply from his majesty is concerned, I consider it even more unreasonable to ask for galleys; for, just as one who is committing some deadly sin displeases God all the more the longer he continues therein, so likewise, the longer his grace continues to transgress the good faith and truth of the contract made by his very Christian king and lord, the greater displeasure he will cause to God; but, if he would depart hence, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair
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