When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the… — Dhul-Nun al-Misri Copy Share Image
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man;… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
How to sin less. Step 1) DON'T trust yourself.Step 2) FLEE from all temptations. Step 3) SPEND TIME WITH GOD. — Yalembirhan Almaw Copy Share Image
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough. — David Platt Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
