"When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'"

-- Hilaire Belloc

'Sixty-six years piling sins, 

I leap into hell -- above life and death."

-- T'ien- t'ung Ju-ching

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

-- Simone Weil

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

-- Marianne Willimson