The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My… — James Frey Copy Share Image
How often have I been guilty of being the Holy Spirit in their lives? It is my job along with my husbands… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it -… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a… — Mireille Mathieu Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I grew up believing Christians didn’t just believe in Jesus. To be saved, people had to look and speak a certain way.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin… And therefore it is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don't trespass on anybody else's rights, and sin is something that upsets the… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
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