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Sin Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting…
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no…
- It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people]…
- Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church…
- The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
- God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our…
- The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which…
- Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor…
- In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of…
More Sin Quotes
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet