sinfulness
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That’s David Brooks’s point: We can’t truly cross the divide unless there’s a societywide and soul-deep acceptance of the sinfulness that has caused and perpetuated that divide.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2019
As northern ministers watched disorder mount in their own section, they began to see the appeal of revivals as potential answers to what they perceived as a flood of national sinfulness.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
That understanding of man’s ever-present sinfulness would steel him against hardship and make him vigilant against threats to Jewry around the world.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2016
These lurid and doleful mansions, owe their existence to the sinfulness and depravity of man; and they are designed, by a mild and salutary process, to reform the sons of guilt and crime.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
