Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image ““Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it.”” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” — William Pitt the Younger Copy Share Image
“Blessed are those who need no reasons other than their love for the Savior to keep his commandments.” — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.” — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
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“Sin is man looking for love in all the wrong places. Reflections of God in creation create wonder, but not the satisfaction we really… — Steve DeWitt Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image