The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it. — Heather Locklear Copy Share Image
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I never cut my neighbor's throat; My neighbor's gold I never stole; I never spoiled his house and land; But God have… — Marguerite Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;… — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The problem with the world is it blames problems on things besides sin and identifies salvation on things besides God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that… — Poemen Copy Share Image
We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label… — Craig Groeschel 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
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission… — Pope Urban II Copy Share Image
To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain… — Carlo Levi Copy Share Image
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ,… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God? — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
