"Deadly sin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we have no wrong in losing also the same; yea, we have true justice and right. Then in what miserable estate we be, that of the right and just title of our own deserts have lost the everlasting joy, and claim of ourselves to be true inheritors of hell! For he that committeth deadly sin willingly, bindeth himself to be inheritor of everlasting pain: and so did our forefather Adam willingly eat of the apple forbidden. Wherefore he was cast out of the everlasting joy in paradise into this corrupt world, amongst all vileness, whereby of himself he was not worthy to do ...
— Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses • Hugh Latimer
... shaving. Gently glides the razor o'er his chin, Near him stands a grim Haruspex raving, And with nasal whine he pitches in Church extension hints, Till the monarch squints, Snicks his chin, and swears—a deadly sin! ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
... be taught by a terrible experience that hatred is a deadly sin; that God punishes it more severely than all other sins, for it is the poison which turns the whole heart to bitterness. I had indulged it—made no effort to banish it—nourished it like a snake in the recesses of my breast, ...
— Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee • John Esten Cooke
... now," he said, "It were a deadly sin, For I've sworn neir to trust a fair may's word, Till the water weets ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... not!" cried Edith, while the blood rushed over her brow. "Thou knowest this can not be. Another's! he is another's! and in the words thou hast uttered there is deadly sin." ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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