When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Whoever mocks his brother for a sin they repented from will not die till he himself falls into the same sin. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win. — Buck Owens Copy Share Image
People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if… — Hal David Copy Share Image
Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead),… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
