Sinful Quotes
226 quotes by 180 authors
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in…
— George Whitefield
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I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
— John Donne
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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the…
— Abraham Kuyper
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The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
— Franz Kafka
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Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates…
— P. C. Cast
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If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
— C.S. Lewis
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I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell…
— Tennessee Williams
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between…
— Alberto Manguel
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Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify…
— Stephen Kendrick
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Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for…
— John Piper
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The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
— John Green
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Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she…
— Khaled Hosseini
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The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even…
— Bertrand Russell
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I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick…
— Julie James
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or…
— Wendell Berry
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Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.
— John Bradshaw
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