Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch Copy Share Image
Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness 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
“When a woman orders fruit salad for two, she perfects the original sin.” — Ramón Gómez de la Serna Copy Share Image
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is another way to think about original sin—the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that… — Thomas Aquinas 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
“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.” — Michael Lee West 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
“Somewhere deep inside many of us is an apology for our very existence. As Anne Wilson Schaef writes, “The original sin of… — Christiane Northrup 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
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
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
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer 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
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that… — David Novak Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a… — Sorin Cerin 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 major premises of Christian religions are (1) the idea of Original Sin and (2) the belief in salvation through faith. Deists… — Monica Sjöö 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
The guy [Doctor Strange], he's like most of us, he's uncorrupted flesh from the beginning of his life, he's somebody who's not… — Benedict Cumberbatch 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
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
“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
“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
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image