To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner? — Arsenius the Great Copy Share Image
“Without sin, who will be grateful for the grace of salvation?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin,… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you,… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is… — Umar Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
