Original sin Quote by Richard Rohr Download Open image ““Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This”” — Richard Rohr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Original sin
“May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define sin have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Maybe the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty-first century sin - but whether the people who define sin have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin’s real fresh and original.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“As some theologians have commented, if we’re convinced that the starting point for our individual lives, or for the human project in general, is… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“Every sin, at its root, is based in something we do not fully believe about God.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there otherwise.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity,… — Dan Barker Copy Share
The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need… — Frank Zindler Copy Share
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous aliveness of the world with the Christian dogmas of the triune God, original sin and redemption. The universe is created, animated and unified by the perpetual self-realization of what Plotinus had called "the… — erwin panofsky Copy Share
“When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold without original sin, without expulsions and floods and disobedience and illness. When I am a good… — Jesse Browner Copy Share
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight… — Ninian Smart Copy Share
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share
“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and why the European mind felt it necessary to deform his doctrine so absurdly. There are certainly contributing causes. The reputation of Italy as the home of fantastic, wanton and diabolical crime filled the French, and still more the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
