Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“I Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level.… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of… — Richard J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland,… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Despite my intellectual attempts to grasp it, I remain confounded beyond all repair to understand how God believes in us enough to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
You have to think of a new way to make something new. And the biggest sin - you can never try too… — John Waters Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin,… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I grew up going to church. My dad was a pastor. I knew that God had a plan for my life. I… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we… — Merrill J. Bateman Copy Share Image
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous… — Caesarius of Arles Copy Share Image
I'm certainly an imperfect man. And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I've been redeemed from my sins. So… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
