"Transgress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have meat and drink," he cried, "bestow it freely upon my men, tired of the unsavoury food on shipboard, and if they transgress the laws of hospitality then I, their captain, shall be your avenger; we want none of your goods or money, having enough in our well-laden vessel to satisfy all your necessities, if ye have them, and ...
— Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter • Frank R. Stockton
... are those who transgress, having knowledge. They have the Word of revelation. I am not now speaking of those who knowingly persecute the truth—those of the first class, who are unconcerned about God—but I am speaking of those who recognize the revelation but are led by the devil to override it and go ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther
... slay and are slain, and transgress not the king's commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all ...
— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous
... that a time comes when re-admission is beyond the power of any save of the highest Mystery, who pardons ever. "Amen, amen, I say unto you, whosoever shall receive the mysteries of the first mystery, and then shall turn back and transgress twelve times [even], and then should again repent twelve times, offering prayer in the mystery of the first mystery, he shall be forgiven. But if he should transgress after twelve times, should he turn back and transgress, it shall not be remitted unto him for ever, so that he may turn again unto ...
— Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant
... affirm it boldly with St. Augustine that men puffed up through a proud opinion of their own sanctity and holiness receive a benefit at the hands of God, and are assisted with His grace, when with His grace they are not assisted, but permitted, and that grievously, to transgress. Ask the very soul of Peter, and it shall undoubtedly make you itself this answer: My eager protestations, made in the glory of my ghostly strength, I am ashamed of; but those crystal tears, wherewith my sin and ...
— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte
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