“There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. There may… — Louise Hawes Copy Share Image
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then… — Martin Luther 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
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
“I believe in original sin … I know that I’m capable of craving a cold beer in a village of starving kids… — George Stephanopoulos 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
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
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
“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 seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism – though… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Maybe you could drive yourself crazy trying to chart backward all the causes and effects, all the ends and means, tracing everything… — Thomas Mullen Copy Share Image
“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We can say that Faustus makes a choice, and that he is responsible for his choice, but there is in the play… — Sylvan Barnet 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
“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem.… — G.M.W. Wemyss 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
“Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash,… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it… — Avishai Margalit 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
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not… — Thomas Campbell 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
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
“The sinful state and condition in which men are born is designated in theology by the name peccatum originale, which is literally… — Louis Berkhof 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
The original sin of Brexit - the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built - have come back to… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“you may be surprised to learn the church flourished for four centuries without any concept of original sin at all.” — Danielle Shroyer Copy Share Image
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
