We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance! — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
“Inferno was for learning about the nature of our sins. Purgatorio is for learning how to overcome our tendencies to fall victim… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Mama anaweza kufa ili mwanawe aishi, anaweza kufunga na kuomba ili mwanawe Mungu amsaidie ashinde mtihani wake, anaweza kulala njaa ili mwanawe… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin,… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it always catches up” — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.” — Susan E. Isaacs Copy Share Image
