Sin Quotes

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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. — William Ames
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and… — Walpola Rahula
Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial… — Orson Pratt
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ… — Brian D. McLaren
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is… — John Stott
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
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life,… — Thomas Hobbes
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy, — Aristotle
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. — Edward Abbey
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. — Edward Abbey
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying… — Samuel Adams
O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my… — George Washington
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder… — Thomas Paine
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. — Thomas Paine
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s… — Abraham Maslow
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. — Euripides
The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you… — Helen Fielding
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several… — John von Neumann
We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered… — Mike Huckabee
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. — Wassily Kandinsky
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom… — Robert A. Heinlein

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