“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“you may be surprised to learn the church flourished for four centuries without any concept of original sin at all.” — Danielle Shroyer Copy Share Image
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“The sinful state and condition in which men are born is designated in theology by the name peccatum originale, which is literally… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The original sin of Brexit - the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built - have come back to… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I came to the conclusion that everybody, and I mean everybody, narcotizes their pain somehow. I don’t care if you think the… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
“Though Baptism completely blots out the guilt of original sin (reatus culpae), there still remains concu piscence (fomes peccati, concupiscentia), which, however,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
“God created the soul pure, simple and clean of all stain of sin, with a certain beatific instinct towards Himself whence original… — Anonymous 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
“what happens when you tell everyone that their worth, their ability, their right to speak on certain subjects and—shudder—their “privilege” is, like… — Milo Yiannopoulos 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
“It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If we just preach general doctrine and ethics from Scripture, we are not preaching the gospel. The gospel is the good news… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are… — E.J. Dionne Jr Copy Share Image
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“The Biblical account of the original sin is the story of man of faith who realizes suddenly that faith can be utilized… — Joseph B. Soloveitchik Copy Share Image
The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
“A primary purpose of Judeo-Christianity has not been to move us toward a community where the teachings of someone like Jesus -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“According to Scripture, it was not man's flesh that fell into sin, but the whole man. The doctrine of total depravity means… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer… An instrument strung, but preferring… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.… — John Scalzi 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
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and… — Aldous Huxley 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
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. There may… — Louise Hawes Copy Share Image
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
