Depravity Quotes
81 quotes by 73 authors
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror,…
— Harlan Coben
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Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can…
— William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected…
— James Denney
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
— Samuel Johnson
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
— William James
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes…
— J I Packer
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's…
— Randy Alcorn
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman,…
— Quentin Crisp
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Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.
— Audrey Hepburn
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Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:…
— Janice Rogers Brown
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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready…
— Tacitus
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Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his…
— Robert L. Reymond
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Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called…
— Henry Clarence Thiessen
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We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more…
— Paul King Jewett
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We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have…
— Alan Keyes
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Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious…
— John Calvin
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When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His…
— Paul Washer
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Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do it, you're in…
— Paul Washer
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Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and…
— Francois Fenelon
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