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
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
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
“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
“According to Scripture, it was not man's flesh that fell into sin, but the whole man. The doctrine of total depravity means… — R.J. Rushdoony 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
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
“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
“For the Orthodox tradition, then, Adam's original sin affects the human race in its entirety, and it has consequences both on the… — Kallistos Ware 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
“When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead” — C.S. Lewis 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
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
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
“One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as… — Thomas Merton 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“In this book I would like to describe how this message of falling down and moving up is, in fact, the most… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith,… — Steven Pinker 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
