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)

    “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 (1892–1983)

    “Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)