Unpardonable Sin

Famous quotes containing the words unpardonable sin, unpardonable and/or sin:

    “The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)