And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty.… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell,… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
“Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.… — Carlos A. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you;… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?”… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures.… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“In the 1640s, a formerly pious London teenager named Sarah Wight suffered four years of spiritual agonies. As she recalled: ‘I could… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
“The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by… — Donald H. Calloway Copy Share Image
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child.… — Charles Porterfield Krauth Copy Share Image
The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual… — David Simon Copy Share Image
![“And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must not lay a stumbling-block in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust…You must walk among sinful persons as you would do with a candle among straw or…” quote by Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/821/richard-baxter-2985_block_and-though-it-be-their-sin-and-vanity-th_891803.png)
![“[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.” quote by Joseph de Maistre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/joseph-de-maistre-11359_evil_m-an-cannot-be-wicked-without-being-evil_958862.jpg)
