Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
“The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don't trespass on anybody else's rights, and sin is something that upsets the… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin… And therefore it is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls:… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I grew up believing Christians didn’t just believe in Jesus. To be saved, people had to look and speak a certain way.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission” quote by James Petigru Boyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0a/james-petigru-boyce-104238_absolutes_it-sin-cannot-occur-at-any-time-nor-in-a_1905689.png)
![“The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.” quote by Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e9/gordon-b-hinckley-331_believe_the-way-of-the-lord-is-the-way-of-happin_193229.jpg)
![“Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.” quote by Jonathan Schell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/jonathan-schell-29900_abolition_of-course-some-will-say-the-goal-of-abol_3165936.jpg)
