We are all born fallen, and there is nothing we can do to overcome the original sin! — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
“Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We’re all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn’t that what Original Sin… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is another way to think about original sin—the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
“chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“The only destiny with which we are born is the destiny of ritual. I have been calling "mask" a lie, and it… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem.… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“St Isaac urges, God's taking of our humanity is to be understood not only as an act of restoration, not only as… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“For it is beyond doubt that there is nothing which more shocks our reason than to say that the sin of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“To proceed with the Biblical curiosities. Naturally you will think the threat to punish Adam and Eve for disobeying was of course… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.” — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
“Arminianism teaches that all humans are born morally and spiritual depraved, and helpless to do anything good or worthy in God’s sight… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.” — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
