Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice... Those who admit their own faults and above all, those… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You know my issue isn't whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven. The point that I'm trying… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
“Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed,… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“It is not sin as we see it that was laid on Christ but sin as God sees it, not sin as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.'… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell,… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
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