Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Sin
I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
It is a sin to be poor.
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.