There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes.… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I'm not saying that sin isn't sin. I'm not… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty… — John Acton Copy Share Image
It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
“I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on May… — George Müller Copy Share Image
“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I realized that there is something else that is influencing people to behave like that, and that's the taking of the souls… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can… — David Platt Copy Share Image
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led… — Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Copy Share Image
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
I did not give Angie a French kiss. It was something simple and lovely. She was about to go off to Mexico… — James Haven Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
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![“It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people] could all see themselves as they really are I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which…” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/615/thomas-merton-231_big-problem_it-is-a-glorious-destiny-to-be-a-member_1795511.jpg)
![“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.” quote by D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/238/d-h-lawrence-426_adam_that-was-the-birth-of-sin-not-doing-it-b_705977.png)
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