You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Admittedly, repentance is not always easy; I suppose it would not be true repentance if it were. It can also take a… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The word “marriage” lingered in Guy’s ears, too. It was a solemn word to him. It had the primordial solemnity of holy,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
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I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity.… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the… — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
“Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies… — Scott Kenemore Copy Share Image
“A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Christianity, according… — Letters of St. Herman of Alaska Copy Share Image
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For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Idolatry begins with a false separation of gift and giver. Rather than a momentary comparison for the sake of testing our affections,… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“You were meant to first be subjected to the limitations of the flesh or the experience of NOT knowing what sensuality feels… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
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To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
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Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
![“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/orson-welles-1628_cinema_you-film-critics-always-overstress-the-v_573619.jpg)
![“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43c/heloise-27050_affection_i-t-is-not-by-being-richer-or-more-power_726871.jpg)
![“When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.” quote by Mickey Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a14/mickey-rourke-4846_bits_when-i-did-sean-penn-s-movie-i-think-i-w_2611764.jpg)
