There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
The Atonement of Jesus Christ and the healing it offers do much more than provide the opportunity for repentance from sins. The… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler 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
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
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
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss 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
Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and… — William Whately Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house?… — John Webster Copy Share Image