Famous quotes containing the words unpardonable sin, unpardonable and/or sin:
“... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriageonly for appendages and dead weights to husbandsof bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselvesis an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (18051875)
“To have a place full of delights and nothing but delights, which one does not have to explain and defend to people who have ideas unsympathetic to one, it is to economize the forces which keep one from ending like the wisteria, from committing the unpardonable sin of doing things with difficulty.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.”
—St. Augustine (354430)