Iniquity Quotes
62 quotes by 55 authors
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
— John Jay Chapman
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Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
— Swami Vivekananda
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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create…
— Josiah Stamp
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Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments,…
— Babe Paley
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I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes…
— M. Russell Ballard
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I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's…
— F B Meyer
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Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless…
— George Washington
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Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works;…
— Richard Baxter
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Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide…
— John Owen
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men…
— W G Sebald
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation…
— Thomas Merton
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False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness,…
— Ellen G. White
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