No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out… — Gregory Palamas 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
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future.… — ElRay L. Christiansen Copy Share Image
Through the infinite Atonement, God has provided a means whereby we can both overcome our sins and become completely clean again. This… — Earl C. Tingey Copy Share Image
Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
“This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.” — R.W. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Why do you insist on traveling on the wrong way, when there exist the right road?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“I don't want to go back to the way I fucking was. I don't want to go back to being alone and… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Kids are not born sinners, they are born innocent and will become whatever you project to them. Stop projecting sin to them.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
“Had God kept from being made those who through His goodness were to have existence, but who by their own choice were… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we… — Merrill J. Bateman Copy Share Image
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
![“I don't want to go back to the way I fucking was. I don't want to go back to being alone and having to be nothing but a weapon. I don't want to pretend that I don't--" [Sin] stopped again and realized with a vague sense of humiliation that he was about to display the ultimate form of human…” quote by Santino Hassell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/santino-hassell-2054_sin_i-don-t-want-to-go-back-to-the-way-i-fuc_2756942.jpg)
