Atheism Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating…

— Andre Trocme

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the…

— John Owen

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery…

— James Russell Lowell

“Ah! Gentle, gracious Dove, And art thou grieved in me, That sinners should restrain thy love, And say, “It is not free: It is…

— Charles Wesley

“Lie on!' cried the usurer, 'with your iron tongue! Ring merrily for births that make expectants writhe, and marriages that are made in hell,…

— Charles Dickens

Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and…

— John Donne

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

— Samuel Rutherford

“Observe the condescension of this fact. This Man, who towers above all other men, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners--this Man receiveth sinners.…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“For there was need once more of a Divine Revelation to the torpid frivolous children of men, if they were not to sink altogether…

— Thomas Carlyle

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

— Orson Scott Card

“Human beings infected with sin, reap plaques and turmoil for punishment due; upon an earthly prison where Satan reigns spreading evil and war to…

— Personal