Sin

SIN

Sin is deceitful. It promises pleasure, it gives pain. It offers life; it gives death. It opens out as bright as the morning; it closes as dark as night.

It is a beast of prey. Under a velvet paw it conceals a claw that wounds and lacerates those that would stroke it.

In every sin there is the seed of another sin. it is self-propagating. It roots itself in the soul of the sinner until it has used up every bit of good soil in the soul.

It corrupts his nature, perverts his tastes, weakens his will, and scars his conscience.

And with each evil deed, inclinations toward evil become stronger and stronger, until the “sinner cannot cease from sin” and he is “consumed of his own lusts.”

Sin is a very promising employer -
- and a terrible paymaster.

-Charles A. Jefferies