REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin.… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck 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
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin,… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and… — William Whately Copy Share Image
The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Often those that judge the outward sin of others most harshly, are the ones that have hidden their sins most deeply. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre… — Edward Bouverie Pusey Copy Share Image
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. — Moses Copy Share Image
It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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