Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“If we just preach general doctrine and ethics from Scripture, we are not preaching the gospel. The gospel is the good news… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.” — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“And sincerely we're seeing When 'sinternally' seeking In a manner of speaking There, in the eve of Eden Wreaked a sea that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
“If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“Arminianism teaches that all humans are born morally and spiritual depraved, and helpless to do anything good or worthy in God’s sight… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“I came to the conclusion that everybody, and I mean everybody, narcotizes their pain somehow. I don’t care if you think the… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
1 - 2 The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. Jose Bergamin The novel is born of disillusionment;… — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“This parlor, said the Interpreter, is the heart of a man who was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel.… — Max McLean Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems?… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
