The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
“Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.” — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We’re all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn’t that what Original Sin… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“what happens when you tell everyone that their worth, their ability, their right to speak on certain subjects and—shudder—their “privilege” is, like… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“The only destiny with which we are born is the destiny of ritual. I have been calling "mask" a lie, and it… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“God created the soul pure, simple and clean of all stain of sin, with a certain beatific instinct towards Himself whence original… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The curse of life The story of Man’s10 abrupt expulsion from Eden – be it fiction, metaphor or literal fact – has… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“St Isaac urges, God's taking of our humanity is to be understood not only as an act of restoration, not only as… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“To proceed with the Biblical curiosities. Naturally you will think the threat to punish Adam and Eve for disobeying was of course… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer… An instrument strung, but preferring… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The original sin of Brexit - the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built - have come back to… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“The sinful state and condition in which men are born is designated in theology by the name peccatum originale, which is literally… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it… — Avishai Margalit Copy Share Image
