“It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. — Agnes Repplier 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
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of… — William Morley Punshon 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
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
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have… — Paul King Jewett Copy Share Image
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.… — William Bernhardt 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
“He’s classy ,’ said Klara, the first time she met him, and Simon beamed with pride. But this is also part of… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“America will not wear chains while her daughters are virtuous, but corrupt their morals by a general depravity, believe me sir a… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“more real depravity, more shocking wickedness, more undisguised vice and immorality is to be witnessed at midday in the most public thoroughfares… — Simon Adams Copy Share Image
Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward… — Henry Clarence Thiessen 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
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by… — Quentin Crisp 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
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to… — J. I. Packer 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
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
“The knowledge of my depravity is the only thing that makes me special... that I have always always always known, and have… — Chris Adrian 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
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity… — Carl Hiaasen 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
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
“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
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare… — John Gabriel Stedman 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
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