“No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
“Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language.… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God? — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost?… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Pleasure” is different from “happiness”. It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in… — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Don't blame God for the sins of mankind. For God isn't responsible for the sins that they commit against you. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley Copy Share Image
a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin. — Sydney Biddle Barrows Copy Share Image
There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
