“Sin is shameful action.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.”— Susan Howatch “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”— Mae West “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”— Charlotte Brontë