Original Sin Quotes

80 quotes by 72 authors

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He… — Karen Armstrong
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that… — Michael Anthony
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility… — Ammon Hennacy
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine… — Origen
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and… — Adolf Hitler
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of… — Pope Pius IX
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. — David Cronenberg
There's no such thing as an original sin. — Elvis Presley
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. — Jerome K. Jerome
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children… — Olympia Dukakis
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. — Edward Abbey
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable… — Jane Grigson
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to… — Lydia Lunch
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel… — Brian D. McLaren
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
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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