155 quotes found
“The greatest sin is doubting Gods truth”
“Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it.”
“Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.”
“After all, thats all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.”
“Problem with Man isn't just his ignorance, not just his iniquities, not just his rebellious nature, not just his pride; above all, his problem is his unwillingness to come out of it”
“Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.”
“The modern skeptical world has been taught for some 200 years a conception of human nature in which the reality of evil, so well-known to the age of faith, has been discounted. Almost all of us gre...”
“He who sleeps does not sin.”
“You will never turn from a sin you dont hate.”
“The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.”
“...so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.”
“But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as I could tell, was never entirely absent from the monks' thoughts. I'd ...”
“The things that tempt us do not come from external persuasionsthey originate from our very own hearts. Theyre conceived there, entertained by our thoughts and then acted upon. Our hearts need daily...”
“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adul...”
“The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.”
“She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.”
“Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.”
“I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.”
“She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.”
“Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.”
