Psychology Quote by Jonathan Edwards

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed…

— Daniel Defoe

“Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

— Anonymous

“For such thoughts are accustomed to occur to men’s minds when God wants to punish sins; they regard God’s Word and absolute truth as…

— Martin Luther

“All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Wherever the idea of guilt, the fear of sin prevails, the mind becomes traitor to the body: "I know him not and will have…

— Various

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade…

— Thomas S. Monson

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such…

— Plato

“Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well acquainted with…

— Nevil Shute

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can…

— Marcus Eremita

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call…

— Oscar Wilde