People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards.… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God… — Joseph M. Scriven Copy Share Image
“Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“They may call you "Stupid" because of what you've done in the past. Hey, you are going to be "Prominent" because of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience.… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
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