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Sin Quotes by Peter Kreeft
- God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God…
- Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your…
- We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
- A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
- When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.
- God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that…
- Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We…
- Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.
- The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love,…
- This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself,…
- Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
- In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
- No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
- We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality…
- Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.
- Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."
- We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was…
- We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
More Sin Quotes
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet
- Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart. — Johann Arndt
- It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
- In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt
- We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball