Sinners Quotes
337 quotes by 231 authors
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices…
— Thornton Wilder
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Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven…
— John Piper
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If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be…
— Emily Bronte
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good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.
— Warren Ellis
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Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not…
— James A. Baldwin
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The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where…
— Ray Bradbury
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The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to…
— Jack D. Forbes
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Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
— Miroslav Volf
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He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
— Janet Fitch
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Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show…
— Brennan Manning
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The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom…
— Brennan Manning
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At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is…
— Brennan Manning
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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will…
— J M Coetzee
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Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.
— Karen Chance
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