Sin Against Quotes
52 Sin Against quotes by 47 unique authors
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I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h…
— Mary Daly
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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
— Erica Jong
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No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is…
— Ezra Pound
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Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
— Thomas Aquinas
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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
— R C Sproul
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of…
— Raniero Cantalamessa
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Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity.
— David Letterman
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You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods…
— George Washington Carver
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But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a…
— George Steiner
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman Rickover
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.…
— Brigham Young
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
— Aldous Huxley
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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
— T.H. White
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured…
— Joanne Harris
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So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the…
— Neil Gaiman
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
— Oscar Wilde
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And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no…
— C.S. Lewis
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
— Seamus Heaney
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Do not commit adultery Adultery destroys marriage and sin against God and against the conjugate.
— Osiel Santos
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It is a sin against hospitality, to open your doors and darken your countenance
— Proverb
Who Wrote These Sin Against Quotes
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