Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch Copy Share Image
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund Copy Share Image
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
“When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deep inside many of us is an apology for our very existence. As Anne Wilson Schaef writes, “The original sin of… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism – though… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet… — Jane Grigson 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
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
“Matthew Fox who, particularly in his new reading of Meister Eckhart, depicts quite early in human history the mystical way of creation… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“The choice today is revolt. Igor Stravinsky wrote, “The old original sin was one of knowledge, the new original sin is one… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
“The weak point in the whole of Carlyle's case for aristocracy lies, indeed, in his most celebrated phrase. Carlyle said that men… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“After the Fall It will not be an easy journey. Adam is condemned to a life of ‘painful toil’ with the brutal… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The original sin of Bidenomics was the American Rescue Plan, which became law in March 2021. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
