There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.'… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary… — Louis IX of France Copy Share Image
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel… — Nicky Cruz Copy Share Image
“The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't try to see how close you can get to sin without getting into trouble-rather,see how far you can stay away.,don't forget… — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although… — Nicolaus Zinzendorf Copy Share Image
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Even in our most diligent efforts to live the gospel, all of us will make mistakes, and all of us will sin.… — Ann M. Dibb Copy Share Image
Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Well, that’s just a little hard, since I can’t even talk her into sparing your life, huh? You haven’t exactly endeared yourself… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a… — Israel Folau Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
