What is "sinfulness"

Usage examples of "sinfulness".

Tertullian, whose fervid mind was thoroughly imbued with materialistic notions, unhesitatingly cut this Gordian knot by asserting that our first parent bore within him the undeveloped germ of all mankind, so that sinfulness and souls were propagated together.

Christian was bound to fall sooner or later into a slough filled with his own despondency about himself, his past guilt, his present sinfulness, and his anxious future.

Is there less sin among us modern men, or did such writers as John Bunyan overdraw and exaggerate the sinfulness of sin?

And therefore we should never think of original sin, or of the sinfulness and cursedness of our natural condition, but we should remember what a grievous sin covenant-breaking is.

Parliament, shewing the sinfulness and danger of this cursed Union, being contrar, not only to the honour, interest, and fundamental laws, and constitutions of the kingdom, and a palpable surrender of the sovereignty, rights and priviledges of the nation, but also a manifest breach of our Solemn League and Covenant, which was made and sworn with uplifted hands to the most high God, for purging and reforming the three nations from error, heresy, superstition and prophaneness, and whatever is contrar to sound doctrine, the power of godliness, and the purity of worship, discipline and government in the same.

Sensibility to sin, or rather to sinfulness, is far and away the best evidence of sanctification that is possible to us in this life.

Dost thou ask at Me why I and My Father have seen it good to allow the dregs of thy sinfulness still to corrupt and to rot in thine heart?

Despite the slight niggling sense of sinfulness that now and again flickered across her dyed-in-the-wool Protestant brain, she was at peace with herself.

Marco-wallah, holds that there is more than one sinfulness involved in lying together.

They employed emissaries to allay the ferment among the Cameronians, and disunite them from the cavaliers, by canting, praying, and demonstrating the absurdity, sinfulness, and danger of such a coalition.

Rector of Novitiates and babbles a confession of the sinfulness of his deeds.

Did she embody gradations of innocence and sinfulness, or was she a contaminated essence, an unfractionated evil?

I do not only animadvert on the sinfulness of the action- though that surely is to be greatly deprecated- but I fear his unrighteousness may injure him with Mr.

In a torrent, Wilson confessed to sexual sinfulness, recounting in what seemed to Blair unnecessary but delicious detail all the interludes of passion and mornings of remorse.

Just like the Right Reverend Father Wiehkne, a hundred other Right Reverend Fathers sat down in their confessionals on Saturdays after business hours, pressing their hairy sacerdotal ears to the shiny black grating, and the members of the congregation did their best to slip their strings of sins, bead after bead of tawdry sinfulness, through the wire meshes into the priest's ear.