Each of these tries to get at the inward and personal root of sin. (religion-online.org)
The Jewish scholar Abraham Heschel, in conversation with the monk Thomas Merton, said that the first commandment, â $ œYou shall have no other gods before meâ $, is first because it is the root of all sin (Merton, A VOW OF CONVERSATION: JOURNALS 1964 - 1965). (nakedpastor.com)
This is the superbia, or pride, which the medieval church looked upon as the worst of the seven deadly sins, and which exponents of the neo-orthodox school, notably Reinhold Niebuhr in America, continually remind us is the root of sin. (religion-online.org)