“Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
D mistake n mortal sin u commit today,ua family would suffer,as would ua circle of friends in future... — Maongla Yaden Copy Share Image
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“by committing a mortal sin, instead of seeking to please God, it prefers to gratify the devil, the prince of darkness, and… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while. — Nadine Dorries Copy Share Image
“He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the… — James Goldman Copy Share Image
I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin.… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
“She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore,… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
“If his contrition is not perfect, the unworthily received Sacrament of Baptism can re cover its effects only in connection with Penance,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“I’ve never been able to accept that things are a certain way just because someone tells me they are. I don’t believe… — Joanna Chambers Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“You said earlier you don't even know what kind of ice cream you like and that's basically a mortal sin, so we're… — Stormy Smith Copy Share Image
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of… — Mary Magdalene Copy Share Image
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
