Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin. — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer… An instrument strung, but preferring… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It doesn’t honor God to pretend everything is OK. That’s the beauty of Jesus that so many people miss. The beauty is… — John Mark McMillan Copy Share Image
You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Gossip is a Sin just like all other sins that not only hurts those it is spoken about and slanders their reputation,… — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against… — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
“Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it always catches up” — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do;… — Charles Hodge 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
“There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.” — Susan E. Isaacs 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
A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Anyone who feels that homosexuality is not only a sin but also a disease or a mental issue should take a look… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God,… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
![“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes ] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/heloise-27050_bonds_i-f-the-name-of-wife-appears-more-sacred_2298825.jpg)
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