But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
You're brought up not to hit girls, that it's the worst sin, and that's what I do. But you know, gender is… — Fallon Fox Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the… — Selwyn Hughes Copy Share Image
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
So many companies today, when first confronted by a crisis, go into a bunker mentality. They either say, "No comment," or they… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Little sins can cause us to to fall down in our forward movement toward maturity. Sure,watch out for the big problems,but dont… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance! — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin. — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins… It… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
