Here's some Paul Tripp, Chad Bird quoting Martin Luther, and Thomas Aquinas quoting Jerome. It brings me great joy to notice that quoting others is historically precedented for spiritual edification. Enjoy!
Regular church attendance, regular giving, along with episodes of ministry can sadly live right alongside a heart that is captured by and shaped by the sacrificial pursuit of earthbound treasure. (Paul David Tripp, Journey to the Cross, p. 104)
Martin Luther once wrote that sin "does not want sin to be sin...It wants to be righteousness."...Show me a sinner and I'll show you, a thousand times per day, how that sinner will rarely, if ever, say to himself or herself, "I am about to do something wrong. I know it's wrong. But I will do it anyway. I don't care." No, we will make up excuses; justify our actions; blame others; claim we are living according to our own rules (but notice, they are still "rules"); or, if all else fails, play the "it's not nearly as wrong as what he's doing" game. What we will not do is treat our sin as sin. Rather, we want it to be righteousness. (Chad Bird, Limping with God, p. 41-42)
There is a true intimacy, sealed by Christ himself, where men are brought together not by interest in familiar things, not by the mere presence of bodies, not by crafty and flattering adulation, but by the fear of God and the study of the divine Scriptures. (Jerome quoted by Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae)
How true, "Sin does not want to be sin"