“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Why does God ask traumatized people to look at the trauma they initiated through their sin and rebellion? For the same reason… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
“Do you see what this pure feeling ‘love’ can do to people? Just now, I know you wanted to take my head… — Charles Lee Copy Share Image
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . .… — J. Oliver Buswell Copy Share Image
Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The Bible says that each person is a sinner and everyone is wicked in the sight of God. God cannot allow sin… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I am… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“But Jesus could see inside people. And inside, in their hearts, Jesus saw that they did not love God or other people.… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
There is a saying in India that the person who should throw a stone first is the person who has not committed… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did… — James Stalker Copy Share Image
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man.… — David Boudia Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
