Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When a woman orders fruit salad for two, she perfects the original sin.” — Ramón Gómez de la Serna Copy Share Image
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
“The Incarnation, then, is not simply a way of undoing the effects of original sin, but it is an essential stage upon… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism – though… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the Marxist social workers, who like to maintain that it's so-called social deprivation rather than innate criminal tendencies which cause more… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents,… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“But that’s the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The choice today is revolt. Igor Stravinsky wrote, “The old original sin was one of knowledge, the new original sin is one… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, to be sure, we are more “comprehensive.” In particular, we pay more attention to the body. It may even be that… — Jean Déchanet Copy Share Image
“Matthew Fox who, particularly in his new reading of Meister Eckhart, depicts quite early in human history the mystical way of creation… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“After the Fall It will not be an easy journey. Adam is condemned to a life of ‘painful toil’ with the brutal… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch Copy Share Image
