God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak… — Louis MacNeice 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
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
“Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him.… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I find that hard to believe. Nothing comes free in this world. Ever. (Sin) Then get up and get dressed. There’s the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and… — Jonathan Edwards 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
If a man sins and denies it, saying, 'I have not sinned,' do not correct him, or you will destroy any intention… — Poemen Copy Share Image
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
People come to me with their heads held high and announce that they do not eat sugar anymore, as though they have… — Emily Luchetti Copy Share Image
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
