“Ignorance is not innocence but sin”
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“Ignorance is not innocence but sin”
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance”
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"”
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin”
“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever”