“God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing… — T.L. Osborn Copy Share Image
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,… — Reginald John Campbell Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
The gospel teaches us that though we may have lost a battle or two, the war is not yet over. With the… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written… — Francis Marion Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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
“They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I pray for forgiveness as my thoughts have no limits and my actions have no mercy. People piss me off that's why… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own… — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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
