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
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater. — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
“But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is not a sin, he tells himself, there is no sin left now, there is only the blood and the water… — Ian McGuire Copy Share Image
Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin. — Eugen Sandow Copy Share Image
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin,… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his… — David Copy Share Image
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self,… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Tucker Carlson is guilty of the sin of saying bad things a long time ago, and for that a bunch of people… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue;… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
