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even the worst sinner can be redeemed
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Unlike in the Inferno, in which Dante meets many monologuing sinners, each vividly portrayed, McCrae’s narrator encounters conspicuously few.
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Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
To the very end, King—an imperfect man and sinner, as all Christians are—did what he was called to do: preach and teach Jesus Christ's radical message of love.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The sacrament of Confession in Catholicism is one way to get sins pardoned, releasing the sinner from eternal punishment.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
This work, for me, brought to mind Giovanni da Modena’s extraordinary early-fifteenth-century fresco in Bologna’s Basilica of San Petronio depicting the devil and his demons eating sinners in hell.
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
To the very end, King—an imperfect man and sinner, as all Christians are—did what he was called to do: preach and teach Jesus Christ's radical message of love.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The sacrament of Confession in Catholicism is one way to get sins pardoned, releasing the sinner from eternal punishment.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
This work, for me, brought to mind Giovanni da Modena’s extraordinary early-fifteenth-century fresco in Bologna’s Basilica of San Petronio depicting the devil and his demons eating sinners in hell.
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Sinner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sinner. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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sinner
noun
sin·ner
ˈsin-ər 
: one that sins
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