Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification,… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other.… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Lord called Himself and is the 'good Shepherd' (Jn. 10:11). If you believe in His guidance, then you will understand by… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 'Twixt heaven and us. The… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an'… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Expiating a sin does not mean doing something opposite to wallow in guilt, but to use that same guilt to achieve full… — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for His return. Backward they looked to the cross and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image