Sins Against Quotes

19 quotes by 14 authors

It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...… — Thomas Aquinas
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of… — Adolf Hitler
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament… — George Gillespie
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against… — Thomas Aquinas
If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has… — Thomas Aquinas
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we… — Thomas Aquinas
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in… — Thomas Aquinas
The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one… — William Arnot
Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the… — Al-Ghazali
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses… — Hippocrates
The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He… — Jerry Bridges
There are no small sins against a great God — J I Packer
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. — Marcus Aurelius
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against… — Adolf Hitler
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to… — Plato
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.… — Dorothy Day
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own… — God

Who Wrote These Sins Against Quotes

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