Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders… — Adolf Hitler 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
“The doctrine of Original sin, which is contained in the story of Genesis – one of the most beautiful concentrated metaphors in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty.… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen,… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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
“Give those who are gentle strength, Give those who are strong a generous imagination, And make their half-truth true and let the… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“A primary purpose of Judeo-Christianity has not been to move us toward a community where the teachings of someone like Jesus -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
“The Biblical account of the original sin is the story of man of faith who realizes suddenly that faith can be utilized… — Joseph B. Soloveitchik Copy Share Image
“It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors… — Ayn Rand 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
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas 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
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“But if Noah was perfect (as the Bible claims he was in Gen. 6:9), then he wouldn’t have been tainted with the… — Steve McRoberts Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays… — Pope John Paul II 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
“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
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
“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
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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