We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To shame our sins He blushed in blood; He closed His eyes to show us God; Let all the world fall down… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins.… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power,… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I grew up in a religious family and, like, that was a very big part of my life, and still, very much,… — Brendon Urie 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
In the Israelite encampment, even though there were iniquities, sins, and wickedness, God did not see any of them because the blood… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
Any time a Christian is conscious of his sin, judges the sin and takes sides against it with a penitent heart, then… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him,… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the… — Edward Reynolds Copy Share Image
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the… — DeWitt Bodeen Copy Share Image
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that. — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity,… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires… — George Muller Copy Share Image
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
