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That’s David Brooks’s point: We can’t truly cross the divide unless there’s a societywide and soul-deep acceptance of the sinfulness that has caused and perpetuated that divide.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2019

As northern ministers watched disorder mount in their own section, they began to see the appeal of revivals as potential answers to what they perceived as a flood of national sinfulness.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

That understanding of man’s ever-present sinfulness would steel him against hardship and make him vigilant against threats to Jewry around the world.

From Time • Sep. 30, 2016

Well, says Madam Moody, here is fresh proof of the great sinfulness of hanging.—To be sure.—But let our opponents have fair play.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old