Deadly sins Quote by Ellis Peters Download Open image “Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.” — Ellis Peters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deadly sins Death Despair Folly Mortals Sin
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is… — Patrick Curry Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“... there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“When I want to hear my echo,” said Brother Cadfael, “I will at least speak first.” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it?… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it… — Jonathan Sadowski Copy Share Image
“I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“In Dante’s philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
