Honore de Balzac Quotes About Sin
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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.
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Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
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