The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If… — Leon Morris Copy Share Image
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner.… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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