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In his most squalid escapades, he knows that he is sinning and fumblingly seeks redemptive grace and the meaning of existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hassenfratz dilapidates at home; Dumouriez grumbles and they dilapidate abroad: within the walls there is sinning, and without the walls there is sinning.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

With sadness let us confess that our age is sinning grievously against this principle of self-care and self-love.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Somewhere in this great, multitudinous mass of humanity he is sinning and sinning and reduplicating and extending the sin that you did.

From Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks by Brooks, Phillips

Some one, perhaps, who is sinning unsuspected, and, in her envy of another and purer one, gloats in the scandal which does not justly stain me.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred