Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Life only has the value a person gives it. If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
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As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to… — C. Scott Grow Copy Share Image
It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for… — Busiri Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate… — Alex Sanchez Copy Share Image
The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing..… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“On Virtue – When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the phrase ‘ugly as… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
![“I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's…” quote by Alex Sanchez](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dbc/alex-sanchez-28999_god-love_i-mean-think-about-the-phrase-love-the-s_2682979.png)
