All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts… — Edmund Gibson Copy Share Image
Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
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He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and… — Reggie White Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She… — Maria Monk 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
Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t complain about God’s mercy to others while thanking Him for His mercy to me. I shouldn’t commit the sin of… — Teresa Schultz Copy Share Image
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Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
“O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
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