Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
I don't regret any of my transgressions, because I believe I paid for them a million times over. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Try not to make every eating transgression at once. When I go out, I won't ever do both dessert and drinks. Just… — Gunnar Peterson Copy Share Image
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet... So if love is to be our watchword, as it must… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions -… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character. — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier. — Gil Blake Copy Share Image
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man… — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image