Sin rots the name, consumes the estate, buries relations. Sin is a dish men cannot forbear, though it makes them sick. There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest bodily evils that can befall us. The ermine rather chooses to die than defile her beautiful skin. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
Affliction is but like a rent in a coat, sin a prick at the heart.
Utile est anima si in hac area mundi flagellis trituretur corpus . Much more to have sin taken away. God takes away the guilt of sin by pardoning grace, and the power of sin by mortifying grace.