The clergymen call us sinners, conceived and born in sin. Bah! What confounded nonsense that is. Is it a sin to love, to feel the need for love, not to be able to live without love? I consider a life without love a sinful and immoral state.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.