(See also Repentance)

The basis of all sin is selfishness.
David O. McKay

The Lord hates a quitter.
But he doesn't hate him son,
when the quitter is quitting
something he shouldn't have begun.
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Pride is a my will rather than a Thy will approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson

Sin is the real self sacrifice.
Lord Aveburry

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Oliver Wendall Holmes