Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written… — Francis Marion Copy Share Image
Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing… — T.L. Osborn Copy Share Image
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,… — Reginald John Campbell Copy Share Image
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
The gospel teaches us that though we may have lost a battle or two, the war is not yet over. With the… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
Christians often get into perplexity about worldly allurements by asking, 'Where is the sin of this, or the danger of that?' There… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less;… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“I hear another man cry, “Oh, sir my want of strength lies mainly in this, that I cannot repent sufficiently!” A curious… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
