It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
“The same horrors were repeated, with minor variations, inspired by greed, the original sin that accompanied human beings from birth, the hidden… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to understand original sin without reference to the fullness of givenness – that is, love. Original sin is… — Pope Saint John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“This piece of land was our original sin, except we had found no baptismal rite to expunge it from our lives. That… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Then the Interpreter took Christian by the hand and led him into a very large parlor that was full of dust because… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of… — erwin panofsky Copy Share Image
1 - 2 The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. Jose Bergamin The novel is born of disillusionment;… — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
“Buddhism offers a basic challenge to this cultural worldview. The Buddha taught that this human birth is a precious gift because it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
“The New Testament also primarily places the blame for mankind’s original sin on Adam, not Eve. In Romans 5:12, we learn that… — Trent Horn Copy Share Image
If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Original sin itself comes straight from the Old Testament myth of Adam and Eve. Their sin - eating the fruit of a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For the Orthodox tradition, then, Adam's original sin affects the human race in its entirety, and it has consequences both on the… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Eve's Fall symbolizes women's invention of agriculture, which came to be seen as the Original Sin that caused the loss of Paradise.… — Robert S. McElvaine Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“1. Declaration of Intent: Hand lifting to the sky The first step is the collective declaration of intent to reestablish Kintuadi between… — Dom Pedro V Copy Share Image
![“A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in…” quote by Ammon Hennacy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0f0/ammon-hennacy-33177_anarchist_a-christian-anarchist-has-no-business-be_2906303.png)
![“The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit” quote by Origen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cb8/origen-12126_apostles_the-church-received-from-the-apostles-th_199967.jpg)
![“The New Testament also primarily places the blame for mankind’s original sin on Adam, not Eve. In Romans 5:12, we learn that “sin came into the world through one man [emphasis added] and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned.” In 1 Corinthians 15:22 Paul…” quote by Trent Horn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/051/trent-horn-66792_original-sin_the-new-testament-also-primarily-places_953711.jpg)
