If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to understand original sin without reference to the fullness of givenness – that is, love. Original sin is… — Pope Saint John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The study of history can be sobering and shocking, and morally troubling. One does not have to believe in original sin to… — Anonymous 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
“Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This” — Richard Rohr 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
I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able… — James Alison 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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Original sin itself comes straight from the Old Testament myth of Adam and Eve. Their sin - eating the fruit of a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
“original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
