“It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A soul that is nurtured by hatred toward man can not be at peace with God, Who has said: If you forgive… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“He is broken in three ways, sometimes four. I count them. -He believes himself to be human, but is not actually. At… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Fine, you fun-vampire. I’ll take my scroll over here and play by myself. (Kat) Fun-vampire? What is that? (Sin) That would be… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin,… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sin that Jesus bore, and that we are now empowered to live free from, includes all the sinful warrior deity images… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for… — Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar Copy Share Image
“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
You're some special kind of hostage, that's for sure. Maybe, well, do you think my purpose in life is to give myself… — Brian Nichols Copy Share Image
“There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
![“We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a…” quote by John Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c75/john-newton-6629_abundance_we-have-no-clear-ideas-of-the-agency-of_2907.jpg)
