“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
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Life only has the value a person gives it. If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to… — C. Scott Grow Copy Share Image
“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for… — Busiri Copy Share Image
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Whatever your vocation is, you are destined to reign in life because Jesus is Lord of your life. When you reign in… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
It's easier for our brains to have a list of rules and say, "If we keep these rules, we're in, and if… — Mark Lowry Copy Share Image
Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
