“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature… — James Denney Copy Share Image
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles… And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I get it. I haven't seen much of the real world yet. But let's say I do get out there... and it… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is… — Mirabel Osler 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
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“There is good even in church people. You find it hard to believe, right? Jesus never shut the door on religious people.… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“Yet, by men in this country, as by the Jews, when Moses was leading them to the promised land, everything has been… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
“To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need… — John Piper Copy Share Image
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