“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